Short Story for girls and boys written by: Maribel.
Today the forest was so lively. Rabbits go out of their dens to greet the new day, the moles awake timidly from their lethargy, getting ready to start the day.
The small deers have been gamboling for a while over the small scrubs, free like the wind caressing their backs.
Little by little, the forest is filling with its inhabitants: sparrows; hares; squirrels; snails; birds; woodpeckers; badgers…appear little by little filling with light, music and colors there where they are.
But there are not only animals in the forest. There are several little houses in the forest where some people and kids, like Helen and John, are living.
Helen and John are siblings, are the children of Valentino, de resin man.
Valentino works collecting the resin the trees produce, that is used to make varnishes, adhesives, perfumes or incenses.
Today is sunday, Helen and John don´t have to go to school, so they decide to play with the animals, their friends from the field.
Play, laugh, sing, make a big circle where everybody jumps and plays inside. Laugh and laugh so loud that the sun, keeps illuminating, looking at them from up there, with envy, thinking:
“I would really love going down to the earth to play and laugh with them, I am so lonely here. They enjoy my light, but don´t even know I´m here”.
With these thoughts in his mind, bewilder, decide to forget his mission little by little and descend to the earth to play with them. Suddenly, when he had started the descent, heard a voice saying:
“If you go down to the earth, your sun rays will be so bright that will end up burning the kids, the animals and the whole forest”.
The impact of those words was so hard that he stopped and went up slowly, back through the short stretch he had descended. His feelings were a mix of happiness and sadness; happiness because he finally understood his real mission, and sadness, because the consequences would have been terrible if he had listened his own thoughts.
That is how he decided and realized that it was posible to enjoy the laughs and the games of the children and the animals of the field from his place, fulfilling his mission. This way, he was happy and made the others happy too.
THE END
Moral fo the short story for Kids:
- Your mission is important for the world, no matter how small seems to be.
- If you don´t do what you have to do, nobody will do it for you.
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