A  pleasant breeze is all over the body, heart and mind in peace, of which’s feeling in driven to my legs that are underneath the soil.....  As a teenager, my life creates blossoms out of the mind as hope to attain my goal. After years been waited, finally, I am standing in that present day where I could feel the Autumn rain. Oh! Oh! I am sorry, You don’t know me...........

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Hi! I am Acacia, the Cedar tree, living in my livelihood of the beautiful Nile river where nature is at its best. My mother, who is just beside me always says, ”Something good will happen during the rain of the autumn” A question arises, we may have rain in the autumn season, but what is special about it?

What if I say that it is much more special as it occurs once every thousand years? Wooooooooooow!! 

But, the significance is however hidden...  My grandma who is just beside my mom knows it very well. However, she won’t deliver it! I was blown out of my throat asking the matter, but all ended in vain. Still, I believe that there must be something special and glad that it is the present day!

 After nearly 14 years of immobile roots underground, I am exhausted by staying in the same place. I would see humans being fast in their work because of their mobility and quite jealous of their name and fame which reached the clouds. Certain wish blossoms inside me to move further like humans and beyond the livelihood to attain the same fame. Is there a way to attain it?

“Yeah there is!” just looked around, but couldn’t find anyone. “Turn here dear!” Yeah! It's my grandma... When asked about it, she said that my wish will become true if I just remind it when the rain falls today! She too added that is the significance of the Autumn rain!

Dark clouds began to surround me, and a quarter of my leaves are off! Powerful air around, animals are running here and there.... house of birds began to fall......... Lightning all over the sky.......  And there comes the drop from heaven to the ground... Just closed my eyes... Visualizing my dream..... The wind is too fast and I can’t bear it! It is like shaking me all over..... I noticed one of my branches is falling..... Doing my best to recover from it...  Wait!!!!!  It's not the branch of me, it’s me! the whole me!!  I am falling in the way of the wind, I am like getting away from the roots!! 

NOOOOOOO!!!!

After a great struggle, I opened my eyes! The rain is over and relaxation is all over my body. Thank God! You have saved me. I felt my body is fine... “Take the branch and put it over here!”  I heard this voice and thought that they are going to take my branch which may have fallen during the rain... Wait! A man is coming to me and he is picking me up....... What? How can a human can pick me as I am a huge tree?? I just watched around................... Nooooooo! I am no more a tree now! Just, Just a branch.......

They are taking me up, hitting me so hard.....  I am now put into a machine and got the shape of a square! I can’t believe what was happening ... But I am still in a hope that the autumn rain is doing something for me!! Those humans applied something to me and just kept me outside... Now, I am being placed in the terrible sunlight, for so many hours and this will be the most difficult experience in my life!

After being there for some days, a huge vehicle came, lifted me, placed me gently in its space and started the gear as it left the location, where I noticed the place where I stayed is termed as a “Sawmill” Days passed and now, I know that the vehicle transported me to a factory. The same humans again lifted me, and applied something called wax and again with stain. They then put me in a giant cutting wheel which carved my square-shaped body as grooves along the edges! 

The humans are very kind as they poured glue on my grooves so that the graphite baked under 1500°F along with some clay can stick to me very stronger. Now, I feel very strong with both graphite and glue stuck together. They kept me in this state for some minutes and just attached the same replica of my structure as I now look like a sandwich!

I have been in this state for hours and now, I am entering the last stages of the mechanical unit of the factory, where I am being squeezed by a mechanized plunger with over 2000 pounds of pressure!

That was unbelievable as I stood under that kind of pressure and now, I am being cut into pieces according to my grooves. At last, I had a “Lacquer shower” shower where the humans packed me up and sent me to shops in a box, where I am being sold to an unknown person!

 After several years passed, now in 2022, I am at the museum where I got the name and fame as per my wish!

WAIT!!  You are in shock that how I am at the museum right? Yeah! You should….. And the answer to it is……….. You all must have forgotten to read the board which is just placed near me, where it is written  “ Pencil Used By Picasso “