29,000 Rubber Duckies and I Was One

I finally reached shore. It's been 15 years. 15 long years, hard years, breathtaking years. I was dumped 1992. My journey since, is a story that must come out. But know now, that my descriptions could never explain how vivid the experiences were in real life. I have travelled the oceans at storm, low tide and high, still water and harsh winds. You cannot imagine it.  I started out with all my friends, then one day the thunder was roaring and the lighting was blinding. The waves crashed on deck pulling along with them everything they could get. We had no control of each other, and we haven't seen each other since. I was ripped apart from my family and my friends. I hope they have made it and have had a journey like I have myself. I hope they have been able to forget that terrible night and move on to seeing the pleasures and treasures of our beautiful planet.
Since then, I think I can say "I've seen the world, I have seen everything." Now I am finally able to tell people about my journey, and I try to explain the many different animal spices I encountered, they didn't even know half of them. I'm sure that I have seen things that others have not yet discovered. I'm sure I've seen land that aren't to be found on maps. I've seen good but I've also seen bad. Lot's has changed in 15 years. Humans have been destroying the seas. There were times where I thought I would die. Not from melting, not from being squished but from being suffocated. Can you imagine, I was scared of dying in plastic, practically my own skin! People are so careless, how can they not understand that throwing plastic, or trash in general is just killing their own kind? It's been getting worse and worse. I remember…the first time I thought that my journey has finally ended and I have reached land, I was being carried into a bed where my cover was a layer of trash. I thought I would be stuck forever. 
I have seen the incredible and the fascinating but I have also see horrors that will never leave my mind. I truly hope that we can learn to take care of our planet and keep everything I had the luck of meeting.
And now I am here in France, when I started my journey in Hong Kong 15 years ago. It's hard to believe, isn't it?
It was the scariest moments of my life but it lead to the best years anyone could possibly imagine.