The Eyes Of The Chosen Ones//October 207th, 2021

No one finds the perfect pumpkin by accident. 

Those who love Halloween, and can’t wait for that perfect autumn day in the pumpkin patch, will tell you that that moment, when you find the perfect pumpkin among hundreds of its brothers and sisters, feels like fate.

Those who truly know pumpkins, can tell you that it is.

We’ve all seen it, those moments when our pumpkins begin to rot. It almost always starts out as a small, soft circle. At first it almost looks like a simple bruise, the kind you’d get from bumping into something, when you’re too busy thinking about something else to really watch where you’re going. For a pumpkin, though, this is often a death sentence. Once these soft spots appear, it’s only a matter of time before the rot progresses. They must, at the very least, be taken outside before they get softer and begin to leak, don’t they?

But while these soft spots do often mark the beginning of the end of a pumpkin’s life cycle, hardly anyone thinks to look closer.

There are some rotting pumpkins that are chosen for something deeper; given one last important task before fading into the pumpkin afterlife.  Sometimes, these soft spots that we recognize as rot, are actually something else entirely.

If you look closely, you will see that some pumpkins, when they begin to rot, start to develop eyes.

Why would a rotting pumpkin need an eye, though? 

The answer is simple, yet complicated. They are watchers. 

In their final breaths of life, these chosen pumpkins are given one final task.

They observe the world around them, and the people with whom they’ve resided. What sort of final moments will they be given? Have they been rotting away, forgotten since Halloween ended? Were they given a reprieve until Thanksgiving passed? Or were they one of the lucky ones that got to hang around until they simply couldn’t anymore?

Pumpkins know when they are appreciated, and they are grateful beings. They observe, and they know, and when the Gatekeeper calls them back, to the realm of the Great Pumpkins of spirit, they report what they’ve seen.

And when you find that perfect pumpkin in the patch the following autumn, it’s because that pumpkin from the year before saw you. They were chosen, and now you have been too. Forever destined to find the greatest pumpkins, because you appreciated them like no one else.