# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CPTZniuNiAS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73154764-fromthebowseat-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9e2317d3ee.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-05-25T16:45:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs 🪸 (@fromthebowseat) — https://gondola.cc/fromthebowseat

## Caption

Look down. Are you at the edge of your 🪑? Cuz we sure are, and this isn't even leila.elasaad's full piece! 😳

"I wrote about a girl whose island is facing the untamable threat of submersion," 🌊 Leila explained.
"It’s a very human feeling of powerlessness, which I’m sure is familiar to many of us as climate and sea level changes worsen every day."

"In the second half of my story, however, she sees a pinprick of possibility in the Blue Moon butterfly cocoons scattered all across the shrinking beach." 🦋
"The chrysalis is a symbol of life and the hope she left behind at her old island, leaving the message that we should move forward and take action with optimism and opportunity." ✍️

Read Leila's full, Silver Award winning Prose piece from our 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest via the 🔗 in our bio!
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#2020OceanAwarenessContest #OceanAwarenessContest #artivism #prose #prosewriting #fictionwriting #creativewriting #shortstory #writingforchange #sealevelrise #climatechange

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## Tags

2020oceanawarenesscontest, writingforchange, prose, sealevelrise, shortstory, artivism, climatechange, fictionwriting, prosewriting, oceanawarenesscontest, creativewriting

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