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Finding Hope in a Tiny Pear
One man made a daring plan, he decided to hike through a vast and treacherous desert. With a passion for adventure in his heart, he embarked on this challenge with a reverence for nature and a desire to explore.
For the first few days, he took firm and strong steps, basking in the warmth of the sun and gazing out over the magnificent scenery of the desert. The rolling dunes and sparse desert vegetation did not diminish his determination to move forward. He carefully planned each day’s journey, preparing enough food and water to cope with any difficulties he might encounter.
However, when he was about 20 days into his journey, he suddenly encountered a terrible sandstorm. The wind and sand came howling, his vision became blurred, and he could barely distinguish the direction and the surrounding scenery. The sandstorm raged and the fierce wind took away the food and water in his backpack, leaving him in a situation of hunger, thirst and exhaustion.
Isolated, he was left with only the untouched pear in his pocket. Despite the extreme hardship he faced, he held on to the pear without wavering, seeing it as his last hope and a symbol of survival. He silently said to himself, “The situation is not too bad, at least I still have a pear.”
In the dusty sky, hunger, thirst and exhaustion kept plaguing him, and the fear of death…