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Do you have a dragonfly on your shoulder?

In a peaceful and beautiful town, there was a pair very much in love with each other, they would often cling to each other on the mountain top to look at the sunrise, snuggle in the sea to send the sunset, and every person who saw them can not help but send out envious eyes and happy prayers.

By GastonOrr90 kPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Do you have a dragonfly on your shoulder?
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In a peaceful and beautiful town, there was a pair very much in love with each other, they would often cling to each other on the mountain top to look at the sunrise, snuggle in the sea to send the sunset, and every person who saw them can not help but send out envious eyes and happy prayers.

But one day, in a car accident, the girl was unfortunately seriously injured, she quietly lying in the hospital bed, a few days and nights did not wake up. During the day, the boy stayed at the bedside and kept calling his unconscious lover; at night, he ran to the church in the small town to pray to God, and he cried his tears dry.

A month passed, and the girl was still sleeping, while the boy was already emaciated, but he still struggled to hold on. Finally, one day, God was touched by this infatuated boy. So he decided to give this persistent boy an exception. God asked him, "Are you willing to give your life in exchange?" Without hesitation, the boy replied, "I do!" God said, "Well then, I can make your lover wake up soon, but you have to promise to turn into a dragonfly for three years, will you?" The boy listened and still replied firmly, "I do!"

At dawn, the boy had turned into a beautiful dragonfly, and he said goodbye to God and flew to the hospital in a hurry. The girl woke up, and she was talking to a doctor beside her about something, but unfortunately, he couldn't hear her.

A few days later, the girl recovered and was released from the hospital, but she was not happy. She asked around about the boy's whereabouts, but no one knew where he had gone. The girl kept searching all day long, but the boy, who had long been transformed into a dragonfly, was around her all the time, only he could not shout, could not hug, and he could only suffer in silence as she turned a blind eye. The summer passed, the cool autumn breeze blew off the leaves, and the dragonfly had to leave the place. So he flew down for the last time on the girl's shoulder. He wanted to touch her face with his wings and kiss her forehead with his tiny mouth, yet his weak body was still not enough to be noticed by her.

In the blink of an eye, spring came and the dragonfly couldn't wait to fly back in search of his lover. However, her familiar figure stood next to a tall and handsome man, and at that moment, the dragonfly almost fell from mid-air. People told how sick the girl was after the accident, described how kind and sweet the male doctor was, and also described how much their love was justified, and of course, described how the girl was already happy as before.

Dragonfly was so sad that in the next few days he would often see the man with his lover watching the sunrise on the beach and the sunset at night, while he could do nothing but occasionally stop to land on her shoulder.

The summer was particularly long this year, and the dragonflies flew painfully low every day, and he no longer dared to approach his former lover. The murmurs between her and the man, his and her happy laughter, were suffocating him.

In the summer of the third year, the dragonfly had stopped visiting her lover so often. Her shoulders were gently embraced by the male doctor, her face was gently kissed by the male doctor, and there was no time to pay attention to a sad dragonfly, much less to miss the past.

God's appointment of three years is fast approaching. On the last day, the dragonfly's former lover and the male doctor held a wedding.

The dragonfly flew quietly into the church and landed on God's shoulder, where he heard the lover below vow to God: I do! He watched as the male doctor put the ring on his former lover's hand, and then watched them kiss sweetly. The dragonfly shed tears of sadness.

God sighed, "Do you regret it?" The dragonfly dried her tears: "No!" God said again with a hint of pleasure: "Then, tomorrow you can change back into yourself." The dragonfly shook his head: "Let me be a dragonfly for the rest of my life ......"

Some destinies are destined to be lost, and some destinies will never end well. Love a person does not have to have, but to have a person must be good to love him. Do you have a dragonfly on your shoulder?

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