What Do You See -
A hand-held plough, the rays of sunlight are shattered through the leaves of the plants and fall on the dark brown soil. A person’s hand in gloves is seen sowing where the plough has tilled.
What Do You Feel -
Perseverance, there is a strong determination to see success in the end. Despite the sun the person continues to plow the earth and sow. Also, there is hope, for growth.
A Short Story -
The house Agent opened the door and Maria looked at David with a smile on her face. They were finally getting their dream house and it was all because of their hard work over the years. David had worked at three companies wooed to the next by managers of the previous.
David’s wife Maria had grown her business from just a kitchen-baked cupcake to a country giant in the confectionery industry supplying cakes to lush weddings of celebrities and birthday parties of politicians and business moguls.
Five years back it wasn’t the case, fresh after college as they found each other and love while in college. “Dave” as he was called by his friends, struggled to find a good job and got turned down at every turn.
“You should start a business” Maria had told him,
“I don’t have the capital or even a collateral for load,” David said, they were both in the diner where they had their Saturday dates, a ritual they kept.
“You should start a business, you have a better chance because of your background in management,” David said, sipping his lemonade. Maria wanted to try out a white-collar job and she was working her ass out for a firm with low pay.
Looking back, Maria couldn’t tell if she made the decision to start her cake business that evening at the diner or maybe it was her colleague at work Nancy asking her to make a birthday cake that the boss loved despite being a “hard woman” as she was called.
Anyways, the result was the same, she started her business and her first client employed her boyfriend in her firm. Six months later David and Maria walked to the altar and after that cut opens a huge cake made by the bride.
The next challenge they faced was getting an apartment. With their incomes still a little low they couldn’t afford the big ones and for a year they cramped in David’s small apartment uptown.
“I loved the house on fairway because of the neighbors and the sound of traffic” Maria had said years after they got their new house.
After working for five years, coupled with the huge returns Maria was now getting from her business as David had invested part of his salary in it over the years. They bought a house, which didn’t look so nice in pictures as it did in person when they visited with the agent.
The compound had a space behind which maria turned into a garden planting different things in a one-meter space. David often teased her about preparing for the apocalypse by planting several things in a small space.
On Saturdays, before heading out she made sure she checked her garden and as it was summer she watered and planted more even as the yellow sun rays beat down through the garden. This particular Saturday she was accompanied by a little sissy who just turned two and her dad David, the love of her life.