Creative writing: LITTLE BY LITTLE || @christnenye

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Lee a traditional doctor went to the desert to gather some herbs for his medicine shop as usual but this time he got lost in the desert for three whole days without water. Lee wandering in the desert looking for where to get water to quench his tasty but to no avail, just as he was at the verge of collapsing, Lee saw what appeared to be a pond just a few meters away.

Lee thought to himself “Could it be? Or is it just an illusion?”

He mustered courage with the last bit of strength and started staggering, He couldn't hold on for too long so he fell on the ground but the desire to satisfy his burning throat made him to crawl towards his illusion and quickly learned that his thoughts had been cleared: it was no illusion—it was indeed a small pond full of fresh water—more fresh water than he could ever imagined of a pond. Yet while he was literally dying of thirst, he couldn’t bring himself to drink the water.

He simply stood by the water’s edge and stared down at it with many things running through his mind. Lee thought "a pond in a desert- could this be a trap"?

Not too long the owner riding on his camel coming to fill up the pond saw Lee from a distance, came closer and stopped watching Lee’s bizarre behavior. He got off his camel, walked up to the thirsty Lee and asked, “Why don’t you have a drink, Sir?”

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Lee looked up at the man with an exhausted, confused, and distressed expression across his face and said,
"I am dying of thirst?" But a pond in the desert and too much water here in this pond to drink", "How can I drink it to possibly finish it all because I am so thirsty?" He also asked.

The man bent down with smile all over his face scooped some water with his hands to Lee's month and said, you ask too many questions, "this is your opportunity right now, little by little you scoop the water with your hands and get filled.

"But what are you doing in the desert with this herbs you're carrying?" The man asked.

"I am a traditional doctor, I came to gather some herbs for my medicinal shop but lost my way and it has been three days" answered Lee after drinking the water to his fill.

The man asked him to climb the camel after asking him where he is staying, on their way to Lee's home town he started explaining to Lee
As you move forward for the rest of your life, you're to understand that you don't have to drink the whole pond to quench your thirst. You only need to focus on the mouthful in front of you and all your worries, fear, confusion, restlessness about the rest will gradually fade. Simply scoop it little by little till you're satisfied.

Moral lesson
You don't need to wait until you have everything before your start up that your dream, you just need to start small.

One day you will look back at where you started and see that your dreams has come to realization only Little by little, with small positive actions you take moment by moment, day to day, month to month will get you to your dream.

Stop building castle in the air, stop wishing and start little by little today.