All That Stays…
It was as bad as can be. We could barely escape. Our lives were saved but all else was ravaged by the tornado. A house full of furniture, wardrobes full of little luxuries, a garage full of good-for-nothing goodies, a kitchen…
Returning after years, the junkyard looked eerily familiar. With tearful eyes I gazed around. Hang on!! Aren’t these the flowers dad gave to me on my 18th birthday? A year before the storm?
“They will stay on forever” was his logic behind buying synthetic pansies. And they did.
Happiness has a way of staying if it has to. In weird forms. At weird places.
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That was my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Ted Strutz.
Tidbit: The flowers in the errr…commode look like pansies, don’t they?
Pansies are symbolic of remembrance, fond memories, love, thoughtfulness.
I like the photo that goes along with your story. Brilliant, and brilliant text. Sometimes certain things will stay behind and be there when we come back once again. Funny, and weird as you put it. Or sometimes maybe we just underestimate the power and strength of what’s around us 🙂
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Thank you Mabel! You seem to be liking these little stories:)
It’s a nice photo with some strange combinations. True that certain things stay on, even if merely a coincidence but that’s how it is. They somehow stayed on. Sometimes we find long forgotten things in one of our wardrobes, like some new discovery 🙂 Probably as you said, they were around but we underestimated their power initially and only now we saw their worth.
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A wonderful story about overcoming the devastation of a tragic event, which to me, is what the pansies in this story represents.
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There is always a positive way of seeing things. Despite the ruins she finds something that connects her to the past, makes things meaningful and she sees hope in all this.
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Ahh! What a lovely stroke of luck!
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True! I suppose it is good luck to get things back, same as we left them.
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Memories stay..they make us happy and tear us apart, simultaneously…
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Exactly so. Memories make our past meaningful and yet too much of past is painful as well as destructive.
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Sometimes keepsakes from the past show up in unexpected places and can brighten the day. I like your take on the prompt.
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That’s true. These are little momentos that make bygone moments more meaningful. Thank you for appreciating!
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Well done! Memories remain
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Thank you! That’s what remains.
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