So sue me, I google-searched...

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(Saw Serenity last night.)

"I am a leaf on the wind."

So I google-searched, 'cause I was curious...it's an inspirational story apparently:

[...]

Leaf was shaking and Wind could see the fear beginning to overtake Leaf. Wind added, "Keep your promise not to give in to hate and sorrow and when the time comes for you to fall, I will be there to catch you. It will be a beginning and not an end for you."

[...]

"You are falling! Plunging," shouted Tree.

"I am soaring like a little bird," Leaf sang out. "See how I go!"

Leaf felt something lift it up. It was Wind come to keep its promise. "I cannot take you far right now, just to rest on the ground. No matter what happens, do not be afraid. I will return for you."

::chokes and wibbles::

Comments

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

*sniff*
=(

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::clings and wibbles::

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

You know what's a bit weird?
Just as I read and commented, Coda fromOnce More, With Feeling started in iTunes, with it's big final line. "Where do we go from here?"

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o.0

[bcgphoenix]

....augh.

*whimpers uncontrollably*

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::RIGHT THERE WITH YOU::

[flouritephoenix.livejournal.com]

yup.

[questofdreams.livejournal.com]

;___;

I'm still in shock from the movie.

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::wibbles with you::

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

...!

*sob*

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::hugs and hands over hankie and curls up with you to wibble::

[gsmulticolored.livejournal.com]

Wow, that makes me really need a cuddle.

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::cuddles and hands over hankie::

With great, great abandon.

[serrico.livejournal.com]

*weeps*

Re: With great, great abandon.

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::hands over hankie and cuddles::

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that's incredible. *wibbles with you*

Reading that so soon after reading trensaddiction's drabble To leave no man on the field (about a certain winged creature and a (sometmes) leaf-patterned character) adds a whole extra layer of symbolism and poignancy.

*sighs*

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::nods:: wah! ::cuddles::

[sbbo.livejournal.com]

You made my heart sad again.

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::hugs!::

(it's like a wibblefest here. ::wry grin::)

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

........everybody's talking about Serenity, and me not wanting to waste 3 hours (which I *always* do whenever I open Google), I have to ask - what is it?

[niqui.livejournal.com]

Serenity is a feature film based on the short-lived TV show, Firefly, by Joss Whedon.

And it's really, really good. :)

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I actually had that book as a child.

The fact that it ties in to Serenity makes me both weepy-happy and very, very sad.

But. *hugs character*

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I so lie. There's a similar line in the book I had as a kid: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf. It was less inspirational and more designed to help kids cope with death without any specific religion.

[mos-self.livejournal.com]

No matter what happens, do not be afraid. I will return for you.

:::wibbles along with everyone else:::

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::nodnodnod:: that line suckerpunched me and before I knew it I was biting my fist...

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

That is so sad and so wonderful and so perfect. I shall be linking to this.

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aww! ::glomps:: I totally teared up when I first found that and was all like "must share pretty pain, oh ow" ::wry grin::

[karabou.livejournal.com]

... :(

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::nods and hugs::

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

*twitches in pool of tears*

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::hugs and hands over hankie:: so right there with you...

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

):

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::curls up with you and wails::

[cephy.livejournal.com]

*joins in the wibbling and sobbing*

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::hugs:: =)

[xtrustno1x.livejournal.com]

Floating in by way of sdwolfpup...and...and...

*wibbles*

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::hugs and wibbles with you:: =)

[kitten-of-rain.livejournal.com]

*omgSOB*

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::hugs and hands over hankie:: I as well. ;_;

[notemily.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine is convinced it's taken from the fourth poem down here (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/2759/LarryMOlson.html):

So laments an Irish lullaby of a life passed
Like a leaf on the wind.
Innocently it yields to the winds call.
The leaf and wind, then, soar together as one,
With no thought, as the journey is begun,
That when it lands the journey is done.

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::nods:: I have a vague recollection of it being part of a meditation too. The inspirational story might have come from the poem or vice versa...it was just one of the first things that popped up when I google-searched it.