Once upon a time, there lived a colony of people who had just arrived on new land. The year was 1989. The world as they knew it was uninhabited and so they decided to pitch tent. Not too long after, they received a mandate that they should cultivate the land and claim it for themselves. And so they decided to plant plants and fruiting trees in the surroundings by first committing to the arduous task of toiling the land.
The farmers dug and dug. After months of planning and tilling, they found the ground to be good and so started planting seeds. The seeds grew into nice tall and healthy plants. These plants, with the Sun as their source and the farmers as their hands, had flourished well.
As life would have it, farmers don't live forever. Therefore each year, the leading farmers had to pass down the task and leadership of maintaining the land to a new batch of farmers. The system generally worked for over a good 16 years or so until serious disaster struck in 2005. Weather calamities occurred so terribly that every plant in the kingdom died.
The land became so vile that no plant could ever survived there. The farmers prayed hard frequently and knew that they had to do something about it lest their population starve of food source. So they planted on a nearby island to sufficiently help the population. SEVERAL ISLANDS ACTUALLY. Plus, the islands belonged to other owners so permission had to be obtained. Yes, the whole thing was very tedious, but the farmers knew they had to do it regardless of the challenges.
This drought and famine lasted over three years during which the farmers moved like hermits across the islands. The farmers prayed every weekday in their home land anyway at 650am in the morning by the stairs near the multipurpose court of their land. Throughout all this, the Sun never left them and followed the farmers wherever the farmers went.
Then, after three years, in 2008, their prayers were answered!
The farmers could once again start to cultivate in their home land! The land was no longer hostile. They were overjoyed and so they began tilling their land from scratch all over again happily. They planted seeds here and there applying the techniques learned from the previous 19 over generations with the Sun as their guiding source.
In June 2008, the land's very first tiny flower bloomed, and from then on, the land couldn't not improve. Flowers and fruits started showing and riping and year after year, bigger better fruits emerged.
In 2009, the group of leading farmers had grown significantly bigger and the trees only stood taller. In 2010, branches began to emerge as the farmers continued to care for their land.
In early 2011, finally, the farmers could call their cultivated land HOME officially after their yearly registration with the United Nations finally went through.
Today, of course the land still isn't perfect. And it probably never will be. Problems will always exist in the world the farmers live in. Leading farmers will change every year. The United Nations imposes heavy restrictions on the land of the farmers. But even over generations, the farmers have never given up. And they probably won't ever.
Why?
Because they have a constant in their lives. The same thing that has carried them all through 22 years of generations since it was birthed.
What was it? The Sun.
Epilogue:
With such a powerful Sun as the backbone of the farmers, the vision is that the land can only keep getting better. And it has. The Sun has never failed its beloved farmers.
The End
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With credits to Joel Ryan Lee. Original post --http://joelryanlee.blogspot.com/2011/06/story-it-keeps-getting-better.html
Peace. :)
Kin.
