Sponge Tale

She smiled.. Wasn’t really a sneer but more of a smug type of smile. 
Her mind definitely goes on and on with thoughts. She holds on to the sponge in her hand.
“Quite a tiny thing  I hold,” she thinks out loud. She puts on the tap and lets the water run. Her mind can travel damn!! To places and back.

Her mind is a buzzing little city of thoughts. She is thinking about how she needs a new business idea, and how she can better her current business, she also needs to improve her education (Like the Degree was not enough), and she is thinking about better parenting skills. Balancing between being a friend, a sister, and a parent is definitely not a cinch.

Sometimes she is so strict with him about the performance and sleep routine over the holiday yet deep down all she wants to do is give him a hug and tell him it’s OK and at the same time she wants to be the cool sister. But she has to toughen up a little bit for his sake. She is thinking about work and the client she did not finish up with or the side where the furniture didn’t look good and it really has to look good. She is always thinking about a zillion things at a time. No wonder it’s always loud enough in her head.

The neighbor bangs their door and it startles her back. “Damn! You really have to be more considerate on the water bill” She whispers to herself.  She always has those monologues with herself, she lives alone not like she really has an option though Hehehe. 

She closes the water tap and removes the poor drowning sponge. Poor thing, it was just there absorbing all in from all directions with no one coming to the rescue. And this got her thinking. A sponge is an incredible thing, many would term it as a weakness because it’s so soft but she tends to think otherwise. Despite it being that soft it is able to absorb so much water. 

So she took the sponge and looked at it, its color had changed a little bit. It was darker now. So she squeezes the sponge!

It had so much water in it, and with every squeeze, something came out. She is a learner and she picks things from her environment. She does not always make lemonade when she is handed lemons. Hehehe sometimes she’d throws them back and ask for chocolates!!
Trust me the universe falls in love with stubborn souls. The sponge really inspired her because it related so much to her current situation, she is always the ‘I’m only one call away ‘ type of friend if you needed someone to talk to. People would just pour to her, Not that she complains anyway she loves to help out people. And she only helped where she could, she never really gave solutions all she did was listen because a problem shared is half solved. Then she would let them find a solution. It’s just incredible how we always have the solution to our situations at hand.

She was always like the sponge, just absorbing. But she also noticed that after squeezing the sponge it became lighter in color and weight and a little bit bigger than it was previously.