Short Stories for Kids written by: Raúl Simao Ferraz.
That is my story, the story of a turtle with no fear, a turtle with no fear that wanted to fly. I´m not saying she was not scared, I am saying she was brave, and her enthusiasm for flying was stronger than the fear of trying it.
Every morning, after eating, she used to go to the beach. There, she walked slowly on the sand, feeling every grain between her legs, taking the same way always, until arriving to a stone where she was used to spend many hours.
She could feel the world immensity from there, the bay was eternally swimming without resting, always with the sea, the wind was whispering music from the bottom of the earth to the mountains, and they took some to musical notes for herself.
But, what she most liked, was to see the birds stopping on the air, being part of the landscape, and so far from her at the same time. Only with their wings spread out, nothing else!
- “They may know something I don´t know” – wondered the turtle.
He thought he could discover their incredible secret, he knew that discovering it would make him see the world in other way, if she could feel the freedom from the breeze…
One morning, a little bird lied on her shell, and asked her incessantly:
- “Why do you come here every day, stopping on the same stone? Is because you are green? Where do you come from? How old are you? Why are you so old?…”
The turtle couldn´t see him, only could heard it and feel the weight of his legs.
- “I just come to see you flying, I can believe you can do it” ´replied the turtle.
The little bird went down the shell and walked curious around the turtle:
- “You can´t be that big and not being able to fly! Have you ever flew? I have flown since I can remember”.
- “I don´t know how to do it! my body is to heavy and I have no wings!” – said the turtle.
The little bird was flying and flying around her, it looked like they were flying, watching her from the far, approaching her, while the turtle was stretching out her neck trying to follow him dancing.
- “Follow me! I will wait for you at the top of that mountain!”
And left flying. The turtle did not hesitate to go to that distant date.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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