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Luck Be a Ladybug Tonight! Loneliness, Happiness, and Hope.

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Did I just say ladybug? Yup you heard me right. I'm gonna share my lady bug story with you. There are times in life when we must all endure loneliness or just plain out face trials alone. When I first moved out to this bigger city I now live in as opposed to the small town that I am from, I was feeling kinda lonely as I was getting settled in. I had a personal computer and a television. I don't remember what movie I was watching, but it was a romantic film. As I was watching I couldn't help but feel a little choked up as a sad ending on the movie I was watching had overwhelmed me. Just then as I was feeling down and out, I see a tiny blip on my television screen and notice that it is a ladybug. Well, since I had the blues, I welcomed it and even got out a bowl with lettuce and watercress from the fridge and put the ladybug in the bowl to hang out and eat. I fell asleep.

The next day I remember to look for my new ladybug friend but she was no where in sight. Until two nights later I got into one of my lonely moods again and she reappeared on my television screen as if she sensed my gloominess. So once again I rolled out the red carpet for her. It so happened that I started school and I would be gone most of the day and she would occasionally hang out on my window sill and occasionally fly on-top of me when I would get home from school. She would crawl on me and feel safe with me it seemed. It's funny that one of God's littlest creatures would bring me enormous comfort, and even company but I never expected to find hope out of the whole ladybug business until one day when I came home from school. I swear I'm so pathetic I yelled "ladybug I'm home". "Where are you"?

Where are you? I look out on my window sill and I see two ladybugs where I would leave the window cracked. You see, I never wanted to hold her captive and that was the beauty of it, she would never leave me. Until she found someone else. It looked to me that she had found herself a "manbug"and they looked so happy as they kinda just buzzed around together.And I watched. I never saw my lady bug again after that and often I find myself looking for her every now and then. But i was happy for her and grateful to her for what she had shown me.

And what I want to share with you the most is this: She showed me that we are never really alone for a long time and if we wait just a little while, there will be relief. The other thing I learned is that if we are grateful enough for what we already have no matter how small it is (small like a lady bug) and believe that happiness will find it's way to us, then we will soon enough attract those type of things to our lives. After the good small things come then come the greater things. But do you want to know what the best thing the lady bug herself taught me? Is that if she can find a companion and be happy then so can I. Not too long after that I met a nice girl at school but that is another story of happiness.






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» left by Sandra E. Graham (2,204)
Sandra E. Graham
from Paragould, Ar USA (94 days 1 hour ago.)

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Beautiful story, Michael. Well-written. I could feel the happiness in this story. I loved it. Keep up the good work.
 
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» left by Robert Melaccio, Sr. (6,349)
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Good job Michael becuase there are many lonely out there, with no one,s earching for a companion and someone to share with. It is out there all about for thre taking but you have to reach out look, seek and find.

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