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Hi. Thanks for watching. This is one of my favourite little characters he's a one legged
grasshopper, he obviously had some sort of unfortunate accident. When I met him I was
in my back yard looking for inspiration. I was actually looking for a bumble bee but
I heard some funny lop sided noises and discovered this one legged grasshopper , you can see
in this photo here, he;s missing his other hopping leg, so aside from just loving the
colours that came out this photo for me is like a real inspiration because I think it
can be so easy for us to just say ...That's difficult for me because of this or because
of that, and you might just want to say well that's too hard or I think I'll stay in bed
today, or I shouldn't have to do that because...The grasshopper should be able to says, well I
shouldn't have to hope because I only have one leg and I was thinking about how anytime
he was out he could eaten by a bird or a cat. I'm not sure what they eat, but he might not
be able to feed himself properly and he could just starve. Grasshoppers must have a lot
of trouble when they're missing a leg and that's what I admired so much about it, is
that it just kept going. Even when it was having trouble hopping it just crawled up
things and the leaves that you can see that he's holding onto tightly...It's just such
a picture of inspiration for me, and I kept it on my wall for a very long time because
whenever I saw it, it seemed kind of silly for me to say it was too hard to keep trying
or I shouldn't have to do something or shouldn't have to keep going or shouldn't have to keep
putting in a big effort because I suppose just seeing such an amazing creature like
that really does give you courage and inspire you to feel stronger. I hope you've enjoyed
hearing the story of this little grasshopper and that it inspires you too. Please visit
skaptart.com to see the image in our live online art auction.