Sample 3

Rose and Frustrations

Would you prefer to be a rose with thorns or a rose without thorns? Practically speaking, a rose without thorns is preferable. Now imagine yourself as a rose with a long stem of thorns. As a rose, your sole purpose in life is to be cut off and be given to a beautiful lady by a handsome gentleman. There are exceptions, of course, some roses are never cut off and are let to, eventually dry, still clinging to the whole rose bush. But if ever you, as a rose, are cut off, the kind gardener would need to rid you of your stem of thorns. You cry in pain everytime a thorn is removed because every thorn in your stem is part of you. That part which protects you from playful hands that grab you and from horrible people who cut you. But they grab you and cut you anyway. Think of the kind gardener for a while. Whenever he cuts roses and rids them of their thorns, maybe once or twice, the kind gardener gets pricked. Not unless, the kind gardener is wearing gloves.

Long, smooth-stemmed roses are products of frustration. You get frustrated everytime a dream of yours drifts away. You get frustrated when someone is blocking your path to success. But you see, these things are necessary. You need to be grabbed, cut and rid of thorns before you can proudly boast, “Been there, done that,” and, “Now, I’m successful.”