Story #22

The tree stump was quite content. The old osprey couldn't understand. The old osprey confronted the stump about this. "I'm perfectly happy with my place in the universe," the stump claimed. "I was happier when you were a tree and I had a place to rest my tired feet," the bird sighed. The stump asked what a tree was and the osprey explained that the stump was the reincarnation of what used to be a maple tree. The tree stump asked the old osprey to leave it alone. It spent the rest of eternity wanting only to die and become a tree.