@atlantica23

9 months ago

this makes me think of how fragile life is. please, whatever you do, don't waste it. i found a tiny, pure white egg one day in the spring, and found out it was alive. i started to incubate it, and as it grew, i watched it's tiny embryo form. i saw its first little heart beat. i saw it's first little kicks and swings. i saw this tiny baby dove's eyes and beak and feathers form until it was a mass of darkness within the egg. after two weeks of incubating, i decided to sleep on the floor next to the place i kept it so i could wake up every 2 hours in the night to see if it had started to hatch. it didn't. i waited another night, and another. waking up over and over and over to check on it and make sure it was ok. but the little sweet baby bird didn't survive. it didn't have the strength to crack through the shell. and i feel as though it's all my fault for not helping it hatch when it was time. i buried little Dovey under the tree he/she fell out of, and carved a cross on the skinny trunk. i plant flowers there for the tiny baby every spring. i cried so hard. don't waste your life, or others' lives. it is very fleeting and fragile.

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