Sunday, December 30, 2012
The Lost Monkey
On one fine day, mother monkey went
shopping with his child. On their journey, something caught the little monkey’s
attention. He stopped right in front of a toy shop, where a stunning-looking
toy car at the window display had attracted him. Without second thought, the
little monkey ran in for his dream car. The little monkey was about to ask the
mother for the car, but only to find out that mother monkey wasn’t even there
when he turned around!
“Mommy! Mommy! Where are you? Mommy…” the
little monkey burst into tears.
While the little monkey was crying, a gorgeous
butterfly entered the shop. Out of curiosity, the lady butterfly asked the
little monkey about the reason he’s crying.
“Hey there little monkey, why are you
crying?”
“I… I don’t know where my mommy is. I
couldn’t find her, what should I do?” the little monkey continued crying as
soon as he finished.
“Oh, it’s alright, don’t cry. We’ll go
look for your mother together, alright?”
“Really? Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
the little monkey smiled, with his watery eyes.
“Before we start, you must describe your
mother’s appearance to me.”
“My mommy has a long tail.” The monkey
answered.
With that, the lady butterfly took the
monkey out to search for the mother. When they passed by the launderette, they
saw a cow woman carrying a basket of clothes.
“Oh look! There’s your mother!” yelled the
butterfly.
“That’s not my mommy!” the anxious monkey
started to cry, again.
“She’s not? But she has a long tail!”
“No, that’s not my mommy. Other than a
long tail, my mommy has a lot of hair.”
“Alright then, I’m sure we’ll find her
somewhere.”
As they walked further and further, a cat
woman who was on her way to the restaurant walked pass them.
“Oh, look! Your mother is going to the
restaurant!”
“No! That’s not her either. That’s a cat,
my mommy doesn’t look like that.”
The butterfly began to get a little
impatient here, and asked “Then how does your mother look like?”
“My mommy looks like me.”
“Then why didn’t you say so?” yelled the
butterfly.
Feeling helpless, the butterfly continued
the search for the little monkey’s mother.
-END-
Postscript:
What’s
on your mind as you finished the story? The story may sound a little funny but
there’s something we could learn from!
At
times, we’re too used to describing details of the topic but neglecting the
most important part of it. When we focused on the wrong things on certain
topics, we might mislead our audience and they might lose patience in time.
Therefore, before we begin a topic, make sure we know what the important point
is. Describe the details only when it is needed.
But
when is the right time to bring out the details? Sometimes when our audiences
do not catch our point on the first time, we could bring out some details as
examples to aid their comprehension. This way, we could lead our audience to a
better direction of where we’re heading.
Other
than that, we could also learn from this story to be calm when something
happened. Crying and being nervous won’t help in solving the problem. Sometimes,
it would only make the people around us get discouraged. Hence, when something
happened, calm down and think of possible solutions for the problem.
Mr.
Toda once given a guidance, “There are three kinds of people: 1, a person that’s
very important; 2, a person whose existence isn’t a necessity; 3, a person
whose presence is a trouble for others. Be it family or at work, you must
become someone that’s very important.” The butterfly from this story became an
important person to the little monkey. She was the one who brought hope to the
child. We must become a person who brings hope to
others as well. When the people around us
are facing problems, we must give a helping hand and show them that we care. You could be rewarded with a
valuable friendship from such tiny little actions!
Shared by,
Jaysern.
Translated by,
Happy.
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