Name: Ali Meyer
Place of Origin: SHS
Description of Clip: swirled, blue
Other: English class

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would end, I'd still plant my apple tree."

"Don't be attached to the outcome!"  How hard this is!  I question it often as well.  How can I not?  How can I not care about what happens to those I come into contact with?  Isn't caring & attachment the same thing?  Maybe it's not, but it feels like it.  And so, when the day came and I crossed paths w/another that had been tossed to the wayside, a moment's caring sprouted a seed of motivation, and this seed sprouted a new branch on my own tree.  The new growth took off w/ excitement & joy.  And attached I became, cared I did, maybe too much.  So when the day came that the seed had died, I cried, questioned, doubted, reflected, and let my heart bleed.  In that moment of disattaching myself from what would never be, I realized that despite the pain of it all, a seed that sprouted into life for the smallest of moments is better than the seed that never sprouted at all. <3 Namaste