Background
You walk on the busy road, among many other, daily workers, who try to reach their homes as quickly as possible after a hard-working day. It is almost dark, and the streetlights are on, some are busy buying a quick dinner. Among many who run toward buses, cars and trams, you walk slowly and for a second take your eyes across the gloomy sky. And you notice the abnormally huge, full moon. Just being present in the sky. And you remember that it takes a lot of courage for an ordinary man among thousands in the city to look at the sky. Simply they do not have time!
And it reminded you the story of bravery.
Story of bravery - the merchant.
A long long time ago, there was a wise merchant. He was travelling with a heard of hundreds of camels, trading goods from town to town. And yearly, he would take a long journey across a vast desert which takes 50 nights to cross. As it is too hot during the day, they rest in the daytime, and at night the stars guide them with directions. And there were these stargazers who travel in the front of the group, who showed the way.
That year was one of the hottest in decades when he took the journey with his heard of camels and men. And it took 49 days for him to travel to the edge of the desert, and the animals were tired as well as all his men, and the ones who lead the group, fell asleep on the 50th day. They did not have water to last another day, and it did not matter as they were supposed to reach the town next day. However following morning unfortunately, they found out that they were reached the place where they stayed the last night. Camels they have turned around as they had no one to show the way. Exhausted of heat and dehydration, many men had no energy to carry on for another day. Not without water. And animals were dying too.
The merchant took a walk with few brave men of his group and was carefully looking for any sign of water. And he noticed a small green plant on a little sand mound. He asked his men to dig a hole. With hope they started to dig, and dig, and dig and the burning sun burnt all their courage. As the hole grew deeper, they were losing hope, and they met a dead end when they encountered a big rock at the bottom of the newly dug well. They gave up and it was depressing end, and they all, thought that they were doomed and never would see their families again. But the merchant thought otherwise.
He jumped into the well and lied down. Kept his head on the rock and listened. With a smile he rose up and asked his men to be brave, gather all their courage to break the stone. And one man, stepped up, although exhausted he lifted the enormous hammer and slammed few times. Once the rock was cracked a gush of water came out. With delight everyone rejoiced and were saved at the end of the day.
They successfully completed their journey.
Story of bravery - The lion and the rabbit
Once there was a rabbit. He was a nice rabbit, innocent rabbit and a cute one. He was sleeping under a tree, one day when it was about to rain. And suddenly there was a huge Noice, and the rabbit woke up in fear, and he saw the roaring sky coming down, as if it was falling down. "Oh my God! the sky is falling down" and he started to run shouting in fear. Hearing his screams and horror, other rabbits started to run. And they all believed the innocent nice, cute rabbit who has never lied to them before. Next were the Deers, they joined the rabbits. And this was becoming a sight to see, as buffalos followed the Deers, a group of fox, squirrels, peacocks, giraffes' elephants. Everyone was screaming in horror.
The lion who was resting in his den woke up. Hearing all the Noice of animals he came out and roared. He was the king of the jungle, and animals stopped running. They were all looking afraid. The lion asked, why are you running?
Some said, the Sky is falling down, it's the end of the world.
The lion king did not believe this. So, he asked who saw it?
There was nobody, but the elephants said they heard it from the Giraffes. And they said it was peacocks. And at the end after a long line of questioning the lion found out that it was the innocent, nice, cute rabbit who started all this havoc. And the lion offered to investigate this. He walked back all the way back to the place where the rabbit was sleeping before it all started and noticed, a huge coconut fallen on to a big leaf, and at that moment a lightning struck. And the lion knew. It was just a bad combination of impact it made with the lightning made the illusion of sky falling down, to the innocent rabbit who was day dreaming.
And after the lion king explained what happened all the animals calmed down and went back to their homes.
End of story of bravery.
If you would like to be brave like the lion, I suggest you can start asking why?
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