The story of a Cotton Pod who wanted to explore the Colorful World.
The universe is filled with colors and textures is something that I realized as soon as I was born. I was a little bud - a little scared I was but was curious to know more about the wide world I could see from my cover. As I bloomed into a pod, I could not contain my happiness at finally being able to break free. Careful hands plucked me from my pod and I was taken in a basket with many of my friends and siblings and placed in a heap.
I wondered what will happen next to me, will I remain like this - a small part of the whole or will I go ahead and explore on my own. I found myself again being taken with my friends and put in huge bags. Now what - I asked myself. Where am I off to now - apprehensive and excited at the same time. After traveling with my buddies for some time I was again offloaded, taken out from the bags and put again in a heap. Small and tender hands started removing my seeds and piling me up along with my buddies. I thought to myself - what are they going to do to me...will I be able to explore this colorful world or will I just whisk away. While I was thinking about my possibilities, I realized that we were being rolled up into coils. I was smoothed, untangled and rolled up with my buddies. Boy, I looked clean and tidy and shiny - come to think of it - all of us did.
We were all very happy with our new avatars and were wondering why were we being tidied up and rolled into round shapes - the answer came soon enough. A lady was putting us onto a round thing and spinning it - I was scared to go onto the round thing. And then it was our turn, the lady put me along with my friends onto the round thing and started to spin. I could see my friends being drawn together to form a thread and then I too was drawn and made into a thread. Another form, another shape and we were bundled off.
I thought to myself, I have come a long way, seen a lot - what more was in store for me and my friends now. Had we seen enough or there was still more to come? I found myself along with others in a place full of colors - there were so many colors - vivid, happy and so colorful. It reminded me of the colors of the rainbow I had once seen from my cover when I was still a bud. Blue, Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple - they all were there - laughing, playing and chattering. I found myself being dipped into a Yellow color and being stirred around. I was breathless for a while and could not understand why this was being done. I remember longing to explore this colorful world but was this necessary? When I emerged from the pot, I had taken the hue of a bright yellow - just like the rays of the sun. I was mesmerized by myself and as I looked around, I saw my friends in shades of blue, purple, green, red, orange - all equally mesmerized as me. From being a simple white cotton pod, we had been transformed to cotton threads of vibrant colors. I was now a part of this colorful world.
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