I knew that something was completely wrong with me, but at the same time I knew that it was meant to be. I was a freak of nature-with nature-literally. I felt the connection, the burning instinct in my mind to talk to the trees, it was almost like they wanted me to talk to them. And at first, I resisted. I was just crazy, completely crazy, trees couldn't answer me-they wouldn't answer me or do what I told them to do. Trees couldn't want to talk to me that was just absurd. I decided for the longest time that it was just the fact that I was so lonely in this big house with just my grandparents. It was just because they never let me interact with anyone but them I had just wanted some friends. I had made up so many excuses that I had just forgot about it, until the unexpected happened.
...It was a very warm summer afternoon, the sun was soaking into my skin and the heat was constant. It was so hot that I felt like I might have drowned in the pool my sweat was making, disgusting I know. I silently wished in my head that the branches of the tree I was leaning against would provide me with some shade. If they would just shift over, not even a whole foot, the soil would cool down and the sun wouldn't be so intimidating.Than in the blink of an eye, I was cooling down finally blessed with some much needed shade from the tree.
For a couple minutes I basked in the shade feeling completely and utterly refreshed and relaxed. I was on the verge of sleep when it hit me. The tree branch had moved. The tree branch had moved and it wasn't from the wind...it had answered my thoughts and moved for me. I thought I was loosing it, it was just the heat getting in my head, but I looked up and-yeah the tree branch had moved. So I sat alone under the cool tree, silently freaking out and somewhat astonished. If only I had known that this was just the beginning.
From then on I figured out it wasn't just trees, but anything that had to do with nature. Whether it was an animal, a small plant, the grass, anything that was in fact nature would respond. If I needed to trim the grass, I would just ask the grass to "please be a little shorter" or if my grandmother would want to see a hummingbird I would ask to "send a hummingbird here quickly". And that was that. These things would do as I said and it was magical, I was so amazed with myself. I mean I was a nobody, my parents had died years ago and I lived with my crazy grandparents, and then this happened to me.
To me...
So far this was the biggest problem for me. How it happened, why it happened, but by far the most thought provoking was why me? What had I done to gain such an incredible ability? I was terrified to bring it up to my grandparents, I already was such a burden to them and I refused to cause anymore trouble or another reason to be depressed. So I kept quiet, but I was very attentive now. I would watch every move my grandparents made to search for an answer. Maybe they had the supernatural power too?
I watched them for weeks on end looking for a sign, for anything! And then the disgusting realization came to my mind while my grandma was making my dinner. She has always made it separate from her and Grandpa's, but I never understood why. So from the little hallway window on the side of the kitchen, I watched with determination. She put in some spinach, a whisked egg and then-soil? Soil. As in soil from the ground. Dirt. Fertilizer. The thing plants grow in. I took a daring step forward into the kitchen, making no noise at all.
"Grandma?" my voice shook with disgust. Her head whipped around, eyes landing cautiously on my face.
"Oh, Jade. I was just preparing your dinner, it's ready now," she said anxiously. I shook my head side to side, the anger and shock still patronizing in my head.
"No. No way I am eating that!"
"But darling, you've been eating this, it helps you stay safe-I swear! I can't have you go like your parents did to me. I can't loose you. You're all I have left, the closest memory of them," she began to cry. I squeezed my eyes shut and covered my ears, trying my best to muffle out her cries. And that's when it hit me at full speed. I had been eating soil for a long time now. Possibly my whole entire life. That dirt was in me, in my blood...
In a barely audible whisper I spoke aloud the realization that just came to me,"My powers...came from the soil."
...It was a very warm summer afternoon, the sun was soaking into my skin and the heat was constant. It was so hot that I felt like I might have drowned in the pool my sweat was making, disgusting I know. I silently wished in my head that the branches of the tree I was leaning against would provide me with some shade. If they would just shift over, not even a whole foot, the soil would cool down and the sun wouldn't be so intimidating.Than in the blink of an eye, I was cooling down finally blessed with some much needed shade from the tree.
For a couple minutes I basked in the shade feeling completely and utterly refreshed and relaxed. I was on the verge of sleep when it hit me. The tree branch had moved. The tree branch had moved and it wasn't from the wind...it had answered my thoughts and moved for me. I thought I was loosing it, it was just the heat getting in my head, but I looked up and-yeah the tree branch had moved. So I sat alone under the cool tree, silently freaking out and somewhat astonished. If only I had known that this was just the beginning.
From then on I figured out it wasn't just trees, but anything that had to do with nature. Whether it was an animal, a small plant, the grass, anything that was in fact nature would respond. If I needed to trim the grass, I would just ask the grass to "please be a little shorter" or if my grandmother would want to see a hummingbird I would ask to "send a hummingbird here quickly". And that was that. These things would do as I said and it was magical, I was so amazed with myself. I mean I was a nobody, my parents had died years ago and I lived with my crazy grandparents, and then this happened to me.
To me...
So far this was the biggest problem for me. How it happened, why it happened, but by far the most thought provoking was why me? What had I done to gain such an incredible ability? I was terrified to bring it up to my grandparents, I already was such a burden to them and I refused to cause anymore trouble or another reason to be depressed. So I kept quiet, but I was very attentive now. I would watch every move my grandparents made to search for an answer. Maybe they had the supernatural power too?
I watched them for weeks on end looking for a sign, for anything! And then the disgusting realization came to my mind while my grandma was making my dinner. She has always made it separate from her and Grandpa's, but I never understood why. So from the little hallway window on the side of the kitchen, I watched with determination. She put in some spinach, a whisked egg and then-soil? Soil. As in soil from the ground. Dirt. Fertilizer. The thing plants grow in. I took a daring step forward into the kitchen, making no noise at all.
"Grandma?" my voice shook with disgust. Her head whipped around, eyes landing cautiously on my face.
"Oh, Jade. I was just preparing your dinner, it's ready now," she said anxiously. I shook my head side to side, the anger and shock still patronizing in my head.
"No. No way I am eating that!"
"But darling, you've been eating this, it helps you stay safe-I swear! I can't have you go like your parents did to me. I can't loose you. You're all I have left, the closest memory of them," she began to cry. I squeezed my eyes shut and covered my ears, trying my best to muffle out her cries. And that's when it hit me at full speed. I had been eating soil for a long time now. Possibly my whole entire life. That dirt was in me, in my blood...
In a barely audible whisper I spoke aloud the realization that just came to me,"My powers...came from the soil."
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