Monday Motivation...

Dragonfly Life Lessons

Pretty hey...

I was sitting on the 'stoep'  aka veranda...deck...

my 'eye' traveled over the still waters [of the pool] then in the shallows...

 movement...something was DROWNING...

and...

 FIGHTING...

I jumped up to help... clumsily fishing it out with my teaspoon...

the dragonfly was EXHAUSTED... and rather wet...

and i wondered if i had got there in time...

The photographer in me kicked in...and i ran into the house like a mad thing :)

 to fetch my camera...

[yes my family do think i am delightfully strange - are we not all so..?.]

Poor thing was still there when i got back...

and i could take a few shots [plenty actually]

This was a rare opportunity to do so...have u ever tried to capture 'one' in glorious flight...

not easy is all i have for u.... 

a closer look...revealed...

 Upon getting a closer look at her i noticed her one wing had the tip torn off...

and i understood how it is that she fell into the water in the first place...

i now held very little hope for her RECOVERY...

As i was loosing faith...

Suddenly she was...

 READY TO TRY AGAIN

and with a flash and flutter of her wings ...

off she went...

I had no way of 'telling' her i didn't fancy her chances...

and she didn't 'tell' herself that either...

We all get 'torn' in this thing we call life...

we 'over-think' things sometimes... and listen to the 'noise' of others...

bringing on the doubt...

when all we really need to do is...

REST & RECOVER...LEARN something...and

JUST TRY AGAIN

:)