In pushing the lower...the higher delights.

At the bottom of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs.They were a happy colony,living far from the sun.They did notice that every once in a while one from their colony seemed to lose interest in going about with his friends,and clinging to a lily stalk,he gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more ."Look!' said one of the water bugs to others."One from our colony is climbing up the lily stalk.Where do you think he's going? Wasn't he happy here? Where do you suppose he went?".No one had an answer.Finally one of the water bugs spoke up."I have an idea.The next one of us to climb up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell the rest of us where he went and why."

As providence would have it,the very water bug who had suggested the plan found himself climbing up the lily stalk.Up,up and up he went.,Before he knew what was happening he had broken through the surface of the water and fallen onto a broad lily pad above.When he opened his eyes,he couldnt believe what he saw.A startling change had come over his old body.His movemement revealed four silver wings and a long tail.Even as he struggled,he felt an impulse to move his wings.The warmth of his sun soon dried the moisture from his new body.He moved his wings again and suddenly found himself above the water.He had become a Dragon fly.

Swooping and dipping in great curves,he flew through the air.He felt exhilarated in the new atmosphere.Every now and then,the new dragonfly landed happily on a lily pad to rest.It was then that he chanced to look below,at the bottom of the pond.He was right above his old friends,the water bugs!.Then the dragon fly remembered the promise.Without thinking he dived down.He hit the surface of the water and bounced away.He winged off happily into his wonderful new world of sun and air.After experiencing the freedom of his new surroundings,for some time,he again landed to rest on the lily pad of course having realised..."If I had not chosen to outgrow the colony of water bugs,to which I was so attached,I would never have become a dragon fly.Now that,I have become a dragon fly,even if I want,I can never go back to where I came from.Even if i somehow manage to go back,the colony of water bugs -my old friends-will no longer be able to recognize me in my new form.they wont understand me.I have to wait till one of them also becomes a dragon fly,for only then will they understand wht has happened to me."

Adapted from : Frozen Thoughts (http://www.frozenthoughts.com)