“Say, Hummingbird, I may have the eyes to see you, ears to hear your song, a mouth to speak to you, the hands to shoo you away, and the legs to take me on this journey, but I’ve lost everything else. I truly have nothing else.”

And then, the dying Hummingbird replied in a faint voice: “That is a lie. You have a past to regret, a present you can choose, and an undetermined future. To a soul that is dying like me, you still have everything left in this world.”