Monday, January 9, 2012

tHE UNFRIENDLY RIVEr [a moral tale]

There was once a very big river which was unfriendly and lonesome. The river couldn't remember how long ago he had actually decided that he no longer wanted to put up with anything or anyone. This river lived all alone, refusing to share his water with any fish, plant,animal or even any man . And so he lived his life, sadly and filled with loneliness, for so many centuries.

However, one day, a little girl with a bowl came to the bank of this river. In the bowl lived Scamp, her favourite little fish.
The girl was about permanently travel to
another country, and she
wouldn't be able to take Scamp
with her. So she had decided to
give Scamp his freedom.
When Scamp fell into the river,
he immediately felt the river's
loneliness. Scamp tried talking
to the river, but the river told
Scamp to go away. Now, Scamp
was a very happy little fish, and
he wasn't going to give up so
easily. He asked and asked,
swam and swam, and finally he
started jumping in and out of
the water.
The river, feeling all the jumping
and splashing, started laughing.
It tickled!
After a while, this brought the river
into such a good mood that he
started talking to Scamp. Almost
without realizing it, by the end
of that day, Scamp and the river
had become very good friends.
The river spent that night
thinking of how much fun it
was to have friends, and how
much he had missed by not
having any. He asked himself
why he had never had them, but
he couldn't remember.
The following morning, Scamp woke
the river with a few playful
splashes... and that was when
the river remembered why he
had decided to be such an
unfriendly river:
He remembered that he was
very ticklish, and that he
wouldn't have been able to
stand it! Now he remembered
perfectly how he had told
everyone to scoot, that he
wasn't going to put up with all
that tickling.
But, remembering how sad and
lonely he had felt for so many
years, the river realised that
although it may sometimes be a
bit inconvenient or
uncomfortable, it was always
better to have friends and to try
to be happy.


Author.. Pedro Pablo Sacristán

mORAL OF THE STORy:
This story teacher that you should be accomodating and friendly to people, you'll miss a lot more when not having then than when you do.


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