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You move along this winding path, dust from the ground clinging to your surface. As you leave your footprints behind, you may smile at the moments you’ve left behind, each one shaping and cultivating you and each one stored in your heart bank forever.

A dainty marigold glances at your direction, little in size but large in essence, the petals emanate a glow which in turn warms you and feels vaguely familiar. Familiar in such a way that you feel you may have met this marigold before — impossible. You would have remembered this vibrant energy and then you laugh, basking in its beauty and telling of your many secrets.

The flower grows taller near you every bit, soaking in your laughs and joys like the vibrating rays of the sun, until one day it is time for you to go. You hesitate, thinking selfishly that you may need this flower’s affection one day and you grab it, a mere second away from pulling the blossom apart the ground where it is continually nourished. But you stop, gasping at your greedy attachment. You realize you are not this beautiful and strong marigold’s nutrients, nor it yours, and the paths are each winding, always in different, untelling directions.

For it to grow and for you to grow, you must continue on your journey, letting the sun bask on both of you, remembering that once this warmth was shared between two souls thriving on separate journeys, you think to yourself.

A friend must be experienced, enjoyed, treasured — never expected, judged or held in place. A flower will inevitably fade in gloom if lifted from its grounds of its breaths. It is to be smiled with, not changed — laugh, cry and understand the beauty of this life with.