Foolish Monkeys

Before several centuries, there was a very large, dense and dark forest. A group of monkeys arrived at the forest. It was winter season and the monkeys struggled hard to survive the freezing cold nights. They were hunting for fire to get warm.

One night, they saw a firefly and considered it a dab of fire. All the monkey in the group shouted ‘fire, fire, fire yeah we got fire’.

A couple of monkeys tried to catch the firefly and it escaped. They were sad as they could not catch the fire. They were talking to themselves that they couldn’t live in the cold if they didn’t get the fire.

The next night, again they saw many fireflies. After several attempts, the monkeys caught a few fireflies. They put the fireflies in a hole dug in the land and tried to blow the flies.

The blew the flies very hard without knowing the fact that they were flies. An owl was watching the activities of the monkeys. The owl reached the monkey and told them, “Hey old owl you don’t know anything about how to make fire. Don’t disturb us.”

The Owl warned the monkeys again and asked them to stop their foolish act. “Monkeys, you cannot make fire from the flies, please hear my words.”

The monkey tried to make fire from the flies. The Owl told them to stop acting foolish. “ You are struggling so much, go take your shelter in a nearby cave. You can save yourself from the freezing cold.” The monkeys shouted at the Owl and it left. The monkeys were so foolish and repeating the same activity upto mid night. They got very tired and realized that the words of Owl were correct and they were trying to blow a fly and not a fire.

They then sheltered themselves at the cave and escaped from the cold.

We may go wrong many times and should seek and accept the advice or suggestions given by others.

The End.

A Glass of Milk

There was a poor boy, who made a living with selling various objects door to door, to pay for his school. He was very hungry and felt he couldn’t walk even a few steps. He decided to ask for food at a house.

He knocked the door and was stunned to see a beautiful young girl at the door step. With so much hesitation, in spite of his hunger he asked the girl to offer a glass of water.

The young girl understood his hunger through his eyes and offered him milk in huge glass. With astonished look he drank the milk very slowly. And asked how much I owe you for this milk?

The girl replied “I don’t accept anything for kindness.” With big smile in his face, the boy thanked the girl from the bottom of his heart and left the place.

Years passed by. The young girl fell ill and was diagnosed with the rarest kind of nervous condition, which was a complicated condition to treat. While many experience doctors baffled at her condition, she was taken to a big hospital to study about her condition.

Dr. Madhav, a renowned specialist was called in by the hospital to examine her. He gave a visit to the hospital where she was admitted to learn about the rare condition.

As he entered her room, Dr. Madhav, immediately identified who that woman was. With all his efforts and knowledge, Dr. Madhav battled hardly with the disease for weeks and months. At last, he won over the disease and the woman was completely cured. Every one praised the doctor, while the woman was quite afraid about the hospital bill as she could not afford to pay.

Dr. Madhav asked the hospital to send the bill to him as he would add his charged. After receiving the hospital bill, he wrote a note and sent it to her. With lots of fear, she opened the bill and had no idea how much she was charged.

Her eyes filled with tears and happiness once she opened the bill. She found the bill cancelled and that was not the reason for her happiness. The little note beneath it was “ I don’t accept anything for kindness”.

The End