^Sand grains^

'Sandy', you may call me that way! I was born along with myriads of others like me , I'm no different from them atleast that's what they all think, but me as myself know that I'm different in hundreds of ways. I'm so tiny that I get swayed by the winds and waves easily, get buried by thousands of feets or just slip away. I'm all surrounded with my kind but detached from every single one of them, we never build up together unless you humans make it possible for us. I spend my entire time thinking of my life in the past and now after so long, what difference the world has made. We were all over the place when you humans barely started to civilize, mingled with us as if we're one..stroked us with bare hands and feets, your children laughing, rolling and singing merrily under the warm daylight. I hold within myself countless treasures, bones and fleshes of greatest heroes, nobles, fighters and unwillingly of the biggest scoundrels too. Despite that, I'm home to all kinds of little insects, reptiles and even mammals, I'm glad to be able to protect them.

A few hundreds of years ago, while I was still at the Sahara, I came across various types of people, from merchants to bedouins, soldiers to peasants. They sang and dance in joy, play different musics that amused me, whilst on the other day they showered me with their bloods and deafened me with the clashings of their swords. I couldn't understand the complexity of humans at that time, but as the time gradually peaked I witnessed every kind of humanly behaviours, Some loyalists who In turn got stabbed by their own friends, some adventurers who in the peak of their youth sets out in search of great treasures, many may not even return alive, while very few of them could find the real treasure that is solely buried in their own selves. All in all, it's not always what we see on the outside is the same as in the inside of everything.I as a silent viewer am greatly enthusiastic to know more and more with changing times and human perceptions.

I am now dispersed everywhere, so many places that they see me as of no use and try to get rid of me, well they succeed sometimes or at times I still secretly hide. I'm stubborn to come out sometimes as I feel lonely, I can't sing nor speak to cheer you, but I can willingly listen out your heart for when you're sad, happy or angry. I am more than thousands of years old yet my existence seems unknown to you, I recognize you since you were little, but you don't seem to know me. Well now I think it's going to last like this for a decent thousands more of years. I am looking forward to unfold more of new mysteries that lies ahead, as for you, I wish you best of luck with your tiny little life.

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