Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Elephant and the Seven Children

This story was from the TV series 'Off Peddar' in TVBJ.

Once upon a time, there was a young elephant. One day, the elephant found seven little children abandoned in the wilderness. She brought them home, fed them and raised them as her kids. When the children grew up, they left home and had their own lives. Every time the children encountered setbacks and failures, they went back home and asked the mother elephant for food. The mother always unreservedly gave the children all that was left in the family. Once again, the children came back to mother elephant and begged for food. This time, the mother elephant didn't have anything more for them. In order to satisfy the children, mother elephant gave her last and most precious belonging, the tusk (elephant tooth) to her seven most beloved kids, and let them trade for food. Without the tusk, mother elephant was unable to protect her own self, and was attacked by other wild animals in the forest, ............................ .................................... Finally, mother elephant was killed in the wilderness.
Seeing their mother lying in the wilderness, the seven children were too late to regret.

2 comments:

  1. Kids never realize how their family support them, when they were down or depress. As their parent grow older and productivity are
    down to zero,they still think their family can help them like before. Is It call childish???

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  2. Parent's love for their kids mostly is unreserved. They tend to provide whatever protection they could to their kids regardless what the kids have become. Sometimes may seem irrational, but the love will die only at the end of time.

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