The Girl Who Wanted to Be a Swan

They say that deep within every heart, there is a hidden shape. Some hearts are trees, some are stars, some are rivers. But the shape hidden inside her heart was a swan. Since childhood, whenever she looked at the night sky, she felt as though she belonged somewhere else. People talked, laughed, hurried through their days, chasing countless things. Yet she was always searching for something she could never quite name. At night, she dreamed of a silver lake beneath a sky full of stars. In those dreams, she was not a girl at all. She was a white swan, gliding across still waters. No one expected anything from her. No one asked her to become someone else. She owed no explanations to anyone. She simply existed, peaceful, free, and light. Years passed. She grew older and eventually realized she could never truly become a swan. She had no wings to carry her across the sky, and life was not as gentle as her dreams. But one night, beneath a sea of stars, she discovered a secret. She realized that she had never truly wished for the body of a swan. She had wished for the spirit of one. She wanted to remain calm in a noisy world. To keep her grace even through sorrow. To be noticed without needing to shout. To carry a little peace and kindness wherever she went. That night, in her dream, a white swan rested its head against her shoulder. "Why could I never become like you?" she asked. The swan looked at her with quiet eyes and replied, "You are mistaken." "You have been like me all along." "I am not the one in your arms." "You are the one who finally found me within yourself." And from that night on, whenever she looked into a mirror, she no longer saw a girl who wished to be a swan. She saw a swan, living for a little while in the shape of a human. "Sometimes, the things we long to become are already sleeping quietly within us, waiting to be recognized."

Chain

TEZOS

Network

Tezos

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KT1JerxJ3AnrLNKwFiLiL5PJoRHmY2uMaEDv

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