The Story of a Cell

My name is Heart, I am a Cell and this is my Story.


I look around and feel elated. How things have changed.
It was not like this before, oh no, nothing like this............

There was a time when I had almost forgotten who I was and why I was here. Everywhere around me was sadness, everyone around me was a zombie, sick and tired......barely able to function, barely able to go to work and do what needed to be done.
Most of them had given up.
I could understand. After all, I had been close to despair many times too.......

The weather had deteriorated to a point where the sun hardly ever showed its face. There was very little light. They said it had something to do with "Warming" - they said there were too many toxins and poisons in the environment. But nobody did anything about it. For a long time neither did I.....
There were piles of garbage collecting everywhere, at every corner there were heaps of rubbish blocking the way.

There was no flow.......

And nothing to eat, only more of the same junk, mostly white in color.
In the beginning we had pounced on whatever was being provided. It only made us more hungry and then more diseased. Vicious cycle. Most of the cells continued eating and slowly dying...
I couldn't stomach that junk! So I ate only a minimum, just to survive.....

Most of the cells roamed in packs. We started clumping together. Sticking to each other. Moving together made us feel safer, but really, we didn't go very far. Or accomplish anything......
Venturing out alone meant being attacked by all kind of bacteria and other alien forms that had begun to fester with the dirt lying around. Most of us were sick anyway. It was easier to just go to sleep.

Fortunately, there were those of us who began to wake up, those of us not ready to give up......not many I admit, but in the end we did make a difference.

I had always believed that our lives served a higher purpose, that there was a meaning to all this. There was a higher intelligence at work here.
I didn't know what it was. I didn't have a clue, and yet, time to time, I caught glimpses of it.....and suddenly I would be struck with a certitude that life could be intensely beautiful, colorful and fulfilling.
Sometimes I would feel a Presence close to me, at times I even felt it inside me. And when I felt it inside me, I felt it in all the other cells too.

This Presence is what helped me to continue.....even in the darkest moments of life.....
I kept seeing how life could be, how this space we called home could be, how the other cells could be, I could see the potential, sometimes it was so tangible, this new world, I could almost touch it......it was so radiant, so joyful,
so different from where I was, it brought tears to my eyes.......

How could I give up?.......

Sometimes, when you are a step away from the edge, Life gives you a surprise......

One day, I took a walk around the block. I was suffocating and needed to be alone.......I had to be very careful and avoid the dumps everywhere, taking back streets and diverting into back alleys.
After a while, I had no idea where I was as the area felt totally unfamiliar to me. I was so tired, I sat down on a broken bench, desperate and lost......I was thirsty too and water had been scarce for ages. The rivers were drying up and the streams a trickle, it was hard to find enough to quench our thirst.......

And then suddenly, in the middle of the usual stink - there wafted in a wave of fragrance, of flowers and herbs, rain and wet earth, so fresh, so cool.....it made me forget everything else, I just wanted to breath it in for the rest of my life.

I had to find out where it was coming from and I began following the perfume, till I stumbled upon the most glorious sight I had ever set my eyes upon......

There, right in front of me was a tiny tiny garden........just a couple of green plants with red buds, with green grass around them and a puddle of water.......nothing more.....
How had this precious piece of Life survived amidst all the chaos and disaster everywhere.......
I don't know but it had. And who was I to question - when there was this beautiful gift being given to me.
All I knew was that if this Garden existed then others must exist too, if this, right here was possible - then everything else was possible too......

Here was hope, here was the future.......it began in the heart of Heart.

Here began my journey......

Thus, I travelled far and long, to arouse and gather other cells like myself who wanted change.
We assembled and held our meetings around these patches of Green that we found hidden in corners and alleys.
We talked, and shared our dreams and began to prepare for Action.......

We found a brilliant strategy to bring about transformation. We revolted, pushed and pulled, irritated and shook the whole world up, we were inflamed by our passion and we became a PAIN......
And that became our name too..........

It took a long time for Pain to make the powers living in their glass tower, high up in the clouds, to notice us.....but notice us they did, in fact more than notice us, it became impossible to ignore Pain anymore, of that we made sure!

Oh and finally the Queen herself, came down from the upper regions of her world and met us. At first she couldn't understand what this was all about, as for such a long time she had ignored and turned a blind eye to everything that was happening down below......all she knew was that she didn't like Pain at all and wanted us to stop........

And then she was aghast, to see the trash and filth that was everywhere......to see the Cells suffering and starving, sick and dying.......it pierced her deep within and she broke down and cried.......

She made us a promise that she would not cut herself off from us ever again......and would do her very very best to turn things around.
She kept her promise. She listened and really heard us and she paid attention.

It all began to change then.......

Now, the garbage is almost gone, the dirt is being swept away faster than you could imagine, water is flowing once more, it has even begun raining......
Gardens are flourishing everywhere, trees are growing and blossoming, shades of Green are visible all over.

Green and other colors dominate the food now, white is a taste of the past.
We are healing deeply......beginning to get our energy back and doing our work again........

We are not a Pain anymore, we don't need to be.

The old world is fading and the New world is almost here, not all, not quite, but very close......

My Name is Heart, I am a Cell and this is my story.