IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA
Far away in a kingdom by the sea, there lived a princess who would walk the fields around her castle every day. She loved nature, and she loved animals. She would look at all of it closely and then return home to write in her journal about what she had observed.
For years, the princess wrote about what she saw without anyone knowing she was doing this. They knew she liked to go on long walks, but no one paid attention to her after she left the castle. Almost no one asked how her walk was when she got back, or if they did, she replied with just “Good” or “Fine”. She kept it all secret inside her because she didn’t think they would really care about what she did or that they would think she was odd. They had other things on their mind, and she knew it wouldn’t be interesting for them if she described the beautiful caterpillar she saw that day or the bird with the strange whistle.
One day, the princess met someone on her walk who had seen her writing in her journal. He asked to look at it, and after he scanned it for a few minutes, he said that she ought to publish it. He said there would be an audience for it, a group that felt like she did about nature. This man also thought she could help a lot of people with their own research because many of them probably didn’t look at animals the way she did. She could give them a whole different perspective, broaden their minds and expand the ideas they had touched on themselves.
It took a long time for the princess to believe this man. She looked over all her journals several times and just didn’t see what he did. She thought it was all just ramblings with no beginning, middle or end. How could anyone learn from this? But he kept encouraging her whenever they would run into each other, and each time he asked when she was going to publish it. Each time they spoke, it seemed to become more and more possible. Finally, one day she was ready.
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