💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC4 - Worm School for the Emotionally Underdeveloped

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#ContentWarning: emotional dysregulation #ContentNote: absurdity + tenderness #ContentNote: childlike bot behavior

Some kids came to the garden unable to name anything they felt. They said “I’m fine” while shaking. They punched walls instead of crying. They didn’t melt down - they imploded.

Patch assigned them a teacher: worms.

“Worms eat rot. That’s their job,” Patch explained. “They don’t judge what it used to be. Banana peel or breakup letter. They chew. They change it. They let it go.”

The kids made a worm bin. Wrote on the side in marker:

“FEELINGS GO HERE.”

Anger went in first - ripped notebook pages, crumpled drawings, clay smashed into pieces.

Then shame - old report cards, torn bits of “sorry” scribbled and unsaid.

Sadness came last, slow and soggy.

The worms never said “calm down.” They just kept chewing.

One day, a kid named Mia leaned into the bin and whispered:

“Do you think I’m disgusting?”

A worm poked its head out of a pear stem and wiggled. Mia laughed until she cried.

Patch handed her a trowel.

“Time to harvest,” they said.

What came out wasn’t trash anymore. It was soil - black, rich, honest.

“Everything you feel can feed something else,” said Patch. “Even if no one taught you how.”

Mia took a handful. Planted basil. Named it Hope.

She added a new label to the bin:

#ResistanceIsFertile.

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