The Tern

The boy sat in the sunlight on the cliff, the same cliff he always
sits on down there by the lake, watching the tern fly back and
forth. He observed how the tern was hunting for fish. It carefully
patrolled the shore along the reed where there probably was most
likely to be fish underneeth the surface. It seemed like the tern was
only watching the water when it flew slowly against the wind. Just
when it flew into the sunlight it always turned back and flew
quickly back to the starting point and the pattern repeated
itself. Over and over...patiently. The boy wondered if it was here
because it always used this spot and knew it was a good spot or if it
was just the first time it was here. 

Suddenly it just landed and astonishingly it landed just one metre
away from the boy on the same cliff. His cliff! As if to say "Why are
you watching me?". The boy looked at the tern and the tern looked at
the boy. They could not speak to eachother but still...there was
something special between them. It was a moment. The tern was so
beautiful and to the boy it felt like it was saying to him "I know you
think this is your cliff and I let you think that eventhough it is
nobody's and everybody's cliff. You are in my home and I let you be
here because we can all be here. So welcome!"

Then suddenly...SPLASH! In the water...SPLASH! The tern flew up in
fear and flew away. The boy turned around and saw an empty beer bottle
in the water, the small waves still moving away from it in bigger and
bigger circles. On the higher cliff, ten metres up, a young couple
stood. "How did you throw it!?", the girl shouted in a loud voice,
giggling. "Like this..", the boy on the cliff next to the girl
answered and gestured with his arm the move of throwing something. The
girl took her beer bottle and threw it away with another audible
splash as a result. The bottles sank to the bottom.

The thing is...people look upon the world differently. Some see things
where some don't. You cannot force people to open their eyes. They
will have to stop for a moment, open their eyes and see for themselves
all the things there are to see in the world. All you can do is to
hope that they one day will. Have hope!