A comforting story - Dragonfly

[berisa]

I like this story and find comfort from reading this, which is quoted one of the stories called "I'm Okay, Mom and Dad" from the book of Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul :

A group of water bugs was talking on day aout how they saw other water bugs climb up a lily pad and disappear from sight. They wondered where the other bugs could have gone. They promised one another that if one of them ever went up the lily pad and disappeared, it would come back and tell the others where it had gone.

About a week later one of the water bugs climbed up the lily pad and emerged on the other side. As it sat there, it transformed into a dragonfly. Its body took on an iridescent sheen, and four beautiful wings sprouted from its back. The dragonfly flapped its wings and took off in fight, doing loops and spins through the sunlit sky. In the midst of its joyful flight, it remembered the promise it had made to return and tell the other bugs where it had gone. So the dragonfly swooped down to the surface of the water and tried to reenter the water, but try as it would, it could not return.

The dragonfly said to itself, Well, I tried to keep my promise, but even if I did return, the others wouldn't recognise me in my new glorious body. I guess they will just have to wait until they climb the lily pad to find out where I have gone and what I have become.

[Don Wood]

Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing. I was always fascinated with dragonflies as a kid, and marveled at all the various colors. Don

[SLT]

Thanks for sharing. The Chicken Soup books are great...that's a really nice story.