Sacrificing for Love

Found another inspiring story in Paulo Coelho's book. This one is dedicated to atem...

It's quite long so im going to just write the gist of it.

A young cloud, a rebel instead of following his other cloud friends decided to hover over the golden sands and while he was there noticed one of the dunes smiling at him. He saw that the dune was also young,newly formed by the wind that had passed over. He fell in love with her golden hair right there and then.

'Good morning' he said. 'What's life like down there?'

'For me,' said the dune, life is short.When the wind returns from the forests, i will disappear.

'And does that make you sad?'

' It makes me feel like i have no purpose in life'. The dune hesitated for a moment ,then said:
'Did you know that here in the dessert,we call the rain paradise?'

' I had no idea i was so important,' the cloud said proudly.

'But i'll never experience that as it rains so rarely in the desser'

It was the cloud's turn to hesitate now. Then he smiled broadly and said:
' If you like i can rain on you now. I may have just got here but i love you.

' When i first saw you in the sky, i loved you too, ' said the dune.'But if you transferred your lovely white hair into rain,you will die.'

' Love never dies,' said the dune. ' it is transformed, and besides, i want to show you what paradise is like.'

And he began to caress the dune with little droplets of rain, so that they could stay together longer.

The following day, the little dune was covered in flowers. Other clouds that passed over, thought it was part of the forest they were looking for and scattered more rain. 20 years later, the dune had been transformed into and oasis.

And all because, one day, a cloud fell in love,and was not afraid to give his life for that love.