All There Is

Sonny was a coconut who knew that one day she would grow up to be a coconut tree. Presently she was floating 10 or 12 degrees north of the equator, bobbing gently up and down with the waves.
She bobbed around for months.
Once a gang of dolphins struck up a game of volleyball using Sonny as the ball, replete with imaginary net, imaginary net refs. in black stripes and imaginary electronic scoreboard.
The game lasted several days. They took breaks for food and sex--you know those dolphins.
Dolphins have great imaginations.
They took Sonny with them for about a month and a half, but somebody forgot to take her along one day; and again Sonny was bobbing around alone.
Then one day a tremendous storm swept Sonny up and carried her to a tiny island north west of Tonga. The Tongans called it ‘that tiny island north west of here.’ We’re talkin’ really tiny. Not deserving of a name.
Sonny thought it’d be perfect.
She really wanted to be a coconut tree. The where part wasn’t important.
The storm had planted Sonny smack dab in the middle of a white sand beach way up past the usual high tide line on the south shore.
If you’d been looking for her you might not have found her. She was covered in sand, branches, leaves and other junk. Sonny soon sprouted leaves of her own, got oriented and soon sprouted roots. On occasion a rainsquall passed. Sonny had been floating in salt water for a couple of years so it was a most refreshing and welcome change.
Several years later, Sonny was a huge well-rooted coconut tree.
She lived happily and had sprouted many coconuts of her own to her left and right.
Sonny had grown up strait and tall, stretching her leaves skyward while remaining firmly rooted to her tiny island home. Once she dropped a coconut who rolled into the water. All morning the surf tossed him around, but then the tide went out and the coconut went with it.
Sonny always knew she would be a coconut tree. Now that she was she had time to ask “is this all there is?”
“Yes.” Was the firm reply. Sonny couldn’t have been more happy.
There’s a moral here someplace but I won’t bother to write it down.