You, the most beautyful of all the flowers!!

(first some words: in class a few days ago we were reading about the new biotechnology law, and I sow this edelweiss which did not look like the others...I picked it up and looked closely at it: it was really shining like I've never seen anything shine before and I started telling my self this story......)


Once up on a time there was a gardener who had the most beautiful garden.
One day he decided to make a field of nothing but Edelweiss. He planted the seed, one hundred of them. He made sure to give everyone of them all the care they needed; water, love, sun and warmth. He protected them from the stormy weather and just loved to come out and see how much they had grown.

Time went by and the flowers had grown long, glittering white, with the sun it self shining in the middle, and the leafs where beautiful in a strong green colour - the gardener said more then once:
"Truly, this is my masterpiece, the most beautiful creation of them all!"

But one of the flowers were not like the others... All the rest of the 'Weiss'-family gathered, but they shut out that one. "His not like us!" "Not good enough.." "It would be better both for us, the gardener and for him if the gardener would just pull him up.." "Yes, the gardener should just get rid of him!"
The one was standing a bit away, but he could hear every word.. "Maybe they are right.... I'm not like them.. I'm just in the way here, they don't want me..... If only the gardener would get rid of me then they would all be satisfied."
That poor flower.. His head fell further and further down to the grown by each day that went by.
One day the gardener came down to the 'Weiss', he stopped and asked them what was going on, how they're days had been and what they were talking about.
"Gardner, you have to see it, he is just not one of us! He does not fit in.." "He is different...weird!" "Now, hush everyone! You can't say stuff like that... The thing is, gardener...Well, just look at him...he's miserable! He would be better off if you would just pull him up with his roots." "Yeah! And if would be better for us and you too, gardener!!" "Hush(!!), I said you all should be quiet!" The gardener shock his head, looked with disappointment on his beautiful creation, before he turned away he said something that they were never to forget: "Can't anyone of you see that these words you call mercy and kindness brings nothing but pain and death(!) to this one?"

Bending down to the one, he softly touched his head and lifted it towards him: "Oh! You, the most beautiful of all the flowers!! Your white glitters like the stars at night, the sun in your middle shines like the sun at it's strongest point, the green on your leafs is so beautiful, no one like you can ever be found!!"