A Mermaid's Tale - Sara is in Love with…

Once upon a time, there was a pink-haired mermaid who loved her golden Swarovski shells. Her eyes were green, blue and grey, depending on water’s colour reflecting in them.

She played games with the fishes and got tickled by the seaweed, and her laugher was heard like the sound of clear, beautiful bells underwater. The mermaid loved life in the big sea since she could hide in the mysterious dark depths while she was dreaming of songs unsung to attract her true love. She was not afraid of anything in the sea, not even huge fishes, wild sharks, and eager fishermen, but her one and only fear was to never find the place she was meant to be. Never hold the hand she was supposed to hold.

As soon as the sun went out and the water got darker, melancholy was appearing in her big eyes. She longed for swimming in company so very much. At the same time, her head was full of stubbornness to give in for any company, but the one her heart truly desired. Her eyes filled with tears. When mermaids cry, nobody knows, since their tears just become a part of the sea. Sometimes she wondered if the whole sea was actually made of mermaid tears and nothing else.

The mermaid kept on singing, night after night, hoping that one day she might be heard. Her golden shells were the most beautiful ones, and she hoped the right one would see how they reflected in her eyes, and it would fill his heart with delight. But the life of a mermaid was not easy. Where was a mermaid supposed to look for her look in the endless ocean? She turned stones, checked behind huge rocks, inspected sunken ships rotting on the bottom of the sea, but still: He was nowhere to be seen, not even hiding in a shell.

On full moon nights, she always sat on the same rock and told the moon about her wishes while she was humming a song about dancing. And there she might still sit every full moon night and on other lonely nights too, waiting for happiness without an end. Because what is happiness worth if it has an end?