Interesting short stories to make you relax from daily stress
Once when a lion, the king of the jungle, was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down on him. This soon awakened the lion, who placed his huge paw on the mouse, and opened his big jaws to swallow him.
"Pardon, O King!" cried the little mouse. "Forgive me this time. I shall never repeat it and I shall never forget your kindness. And who knows, I may be able to do you a good turn one of these days!”
The lion was so tickled by the idea of the mouse being able to help him that he lifted his paw and let him go.
Sometime later, a few hunters captured the lion, and tied him to a tree. After that they went in search of a wagon, to take him to the zoo.
Just then the little mouse happened to pass by. On seeing the lion’s plight, he ran up to him and gnawed away the ropes that bound him, the king of the jungle.
"Was I not right?" said the little mouse, very happy to help the lion.
MORAL: Small acts of kindness will be rewarded greatly.
The Lion and the Mouse
Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough.
They imagined that if the bird is able to lay golden eggs, its insides must be made of gold. And they thought that if they could get all that precious metal at once, they would get mighty rich very soon. So the man and his wife decided to kill the bird.
However, upon cutting the goose open, they were shocked to find that its innards were like that of any other goose!
MORAL: THINK BEFORE YOU ACT
Kill not the goose that lays golden eggs is a popular proverb in English that is rooted in this story.
When we use this proverb, we mean that anyone who feels entitled to, and tries to get more than he is already receiving, is most likely to get nothing at all in the future.
Read the following example:
Young Johnny had a very kind and generous uncle. Every time Johnny visited him with his parents, he was given five cents. One day, Johnny thought of buying a bike. The next time he met his uncle, he asked him for 50 dollars. “50 dollars?” exclaimed his uncle. “That is a lot of money!”
“Well, you can afford it, and I want to buy a bike,” said Johnny. “You don’t have any children, so you should have a lot of money.”
Johnny’s uncle was very angry. He did not like Johnny’s attitude.
Johnny did not get 50 dollars. He did not get his five cents also any more.
He had killed the goose that laid golden eggs. If he had been wiser, he would have at least got his five cents.
Sometimes, we are not content with what we have, and wish for more. Such discontentment always results in unhappiness, and regret.
The Goose with the Golden Eggs
MORAL: THINK BEFORE YOU ACT
There once was a speedy Hare who bragged about how fast he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, the Tortoise challenged him to a race. All the animals in the forest gathered to watch.
The Hare ran down the road for a while and then paused to rest. He looked back at the tortoise and cried out, "How do you expect to win this race when you are walking along at your slow, slow pace?"
The Hare stretched himself out alongside the road and fell asleep, thinking, "There is plenty of time to relax."
The Tortoise walked and walked, never ever stopping until he came to the finish line.
The animals who were watching cheered so loudly for Tortoise that they woke up the Hare. The Hare stretched, yawned and began to run again, but it was too late. Tortoise had already crossed the finish line.
Moral: Slow and steady wins the race.
This is the story that we have all grown up with. But recently, two additions have been proposed to the story.
Addition 1
After being defeated by the tortoise, the hare did some soul-searching. He knew that though he had tried hard in the beginning, he was not consistent, and had grown overconfident. He was determined to undo his mistakes, and invited tortoise for another race. This time, the rabbit was careful to run the whole distance, and of course, emerged the winner.
Moral: Fast and consistent may be better than slow and steady.
Addition 2
Well, after emerging the loser in the second race, the tortoise thought long and hard. He knew that in any traditional terrain, the hare would win, if he was fast and consistent. Therefore, he thought of a non-traditional terrain for the race. Then he invited the rabbit for another race. This time the rabbit laughed out loud, thinking that the tortoise was out of his head. But the tortoise insisted that there should be another race and the terrain would be decided by the tortoise. The rabbit agreed to the idea.
The race began. The rabbit was leading in front, with the tortoise far back trundling along. Around half way through the race, they came across a river. The rabbit halted on the bank of the river, wondering how to cross the river. Meanwhile, the tortoise approached the river slowly, got in to the water, swam across, climbed up on the other bank, ran the last few kilometers, and won the race.
Moral: when your capabilities are below par, choose a playing ground that gives you a natural advantage.
The Hare and the Tortoise
The mysterious baby
Once upon a time, there lived a man with his wife far away in a small village. They shared many years of marriage without a child.
One day Mr. Freeman called his wife Jane. He said, Jane I am having a concern about something. His wife replied, what is that again? Mr. Freeman exclaimed, you said again? Why are we still two in this house? His wife said, I do not know.
Mr. Freeman continued the discussion and said. We must do something to get a child in this house. Jane said, then suggest now. Freeman toned down softly, I know a man that can help us getting a baby.
Jane agreed to her husband proposals and set a day for the trip. The day reached.
Jane sounded, Mr. Freeman are you still humming in bed by this time.
Mr. Freeman started out of his sleep, woman why are you worrying me this early morning. Have you forgotten our plan on this dawn? Which plan Freeman asked, with eyes widely opened.
Jane said, the journey of the baby.
Freeman, it is too early.
The way is long, said Jane. All right I got it.
Two weeks later Jane started vomiting. Less than eight weeks Jane realize that her stomach has increased in size than expected.
One morning, Jane waked up her husband and said.
Mr. Freeman I am also having a concern. What is it about?
Can’t you realize something abnormal about my pregnancy?
No why, Freeman replied.
Jane my stomach.
Mr. Freeman, your stomach, what is wrong with your stomach?
This is not what usually a woman is expecting to see only in two months of pregnancy.
Both started thinking what the next step will be.
Three months later Jane gave birth to a big baby boy.
There were joys in the house, in people but Jane and her husband inwardly are sad about something that they don’t know might happen.
The seventh day at night, mother waked up from sleep and see that the boy is singing.
Touched softly her husband, both are shocked about what is happening.
The next day the boy started talking.
Father and mother are both confused.
Sitting outside having a discussion about what to do.
Left with no other choice than to kill the baby boy.
Father said, do whatever you want to do with your baby.
Point of correction your baby not mine, mother replied.
Father talked who carried that thing within four or five month in her stomach if I am right.
Mother, who suggested the idea to go for a baby in Roseland. But I did not pick up interest in that again later, father said.
Mother was about to talk and head a soft voice behind her, saying, mummy I am hungry, baby walking towards them.
Father and mother got froze by fear.
Mother mustered her fear and said sweetheart wait let me serve food.
Mother and father decided to poison the little boy. But all trials helped the boy to grow stronger.
One morning on they went to see the shine, leaving the boy behind in the house.
At their arrival to the shrine, the little boy is awaiting them.
Finally they were saved by offering sacrifices that are requested by the boy from them.
Of attempting to kill him. The baby boy is gone again.
Mr. Freeman and his wife Jane got peace from then on, and never requested for a child again.
Moral lesson: everything that is from the devil will go back to the devil.
Written by Mawuli