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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who was never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for beauty unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the beauty saying, Please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” The little girl hugged the new beauty and brought the beauty with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka, it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Occasionally throughout our lives, we are blessed with knowledge; you thought you understood. Then you stop and listen. Your Pandora box opens 👐 listening to the words instead of talking teaches us new ways to improve our life. God works in many mysterious ways. Moments like these are sacred. Profound and life-changing. Be open 👐 a&m
Embrace change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but we must consciously and intentionally create that connection.
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