Five minute freewrite by @myjob

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This is my post for #freewriters Friday prompt reckless hosted by @mariannewest

As I have aged my thoughts have changed. When I was young I never thought about plants having feelings. Today as I sat on my little stool, which was made by my favorite uncle in the early sixties, I was pulling weeds and I could not help but think if they hurt when I rip them out of the ground. I put myself in the "mind" of a weed, I have been growing in this one spot where I get plenty of water and food, I am healthy, life is good. Then this hand grabs me and yanks me out of my home, exposing my roots to the heat of the sun.

I guess I can relate to the weeds. We had a good life, fishing for a living. Then everything got taken from us. Florida passed a net ban in 1995. Our way of life was gone. They said without the commercial net fishermen the fish will be so thick that they would be jumping in your boats. I find it odd that 26 years later the river's entire ecosystem has crashed and now with no seagrass there is not the habitat for fish to survive in. For over 200 years nets were used and there was plenty of fish, now because of the state of Florida's reckless actions of keeping the freshwater from entering a brackish-water lagoon, the fish and the fishermen are done for, like a hand that reached down and pulled the life out of them.



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That is so sad ... Florida has been going through it for a while ... treating the people and their livelihood like mere weeds...

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Florida is all about money and tourism, not saving nature. They have been dumping sand on the beaches to save the beachfront houses but with every storm, the sand washes out and covers the reef, they just put more sand on it killing the reef. :(

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So sad ... no long-term thinking at all ... undermining the foundation of everything for some cash today...

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We humans always seem to know better. A lake in Germany was "cleaned". The result is the same as what you described. After all these years it's still empty.

I think plants have feelings too.

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