This is a bed time story I told on my own to my son. I wanted to share it here to spread positive thinking.
It was the dawn of a
sunny day and KaNaMeNaSe was browsing through her favorite book when she heard
her mother calling out “Let’s have breakfast”. After finishing the breakfast, KaNaMeNaSe’s
mother told,”Kiddo, play for a while inside home and let me finish some
household chores before taking you out.” KaNaMeNaSe, a happy girl by nature,
walked slowly towards the window of their living room and got interested in watching
the hustling bustling morning lives of different people on the streets.
Her eyes got caught
on a bread-seller who approached few houses before their home, rang his bells
in the bicycle and stopped to sell some bread. He then continued his bicycle
journey, but this time without ringing his bells. As he crossed KaNaMeNaSe’s
home, she yelled out, “Bread uncle, Bread uncle have a look here behind the
window”. Hearing someone calling out for him, he stopped and looked back and
saw KaNaMeNaSe peeping out through her window.
KaNaMeNaSe spoke out,
“Why you did not ring bells when you crossed our home?”
He
replied, “Oh, that’s because I know your mother won’t buy breads from me and so I
didn’t ring the bells.”
KaNaMeNaSe astonishingly replied, “But you
know, I have asked my mother yesterday
to get me sweet bread. Perhaps, if you would have rang the bells and
yelled out, my mother would have brought it from you! Who knows each house
could have similar stories, if only you ring the bells you will sell more breads,
isn’t it?
Now some bells
started ringing in the minds of bread-seller, he replied.
“You are right; I
used to do it before. Off late I have somehow missed it as a result of my routine
boredom. Thanks sweetie for reminding me of it. Please accept bread from me.”
Saying so, he
continued pressing his pedals and yelling out “Breads, Breads, fresh sweet
breads.”
Now KaNaMeNaSe
was looking forward to catch up with another chat. There came the postman who
delivered letters to her neighbor aunty. As he crossed her house, KaNaMeNaSe
called out to him.
Postman replied from
a distance, “You have no letters for your home KaNaMeNaSe”.
KaNaMeNaSe continued,
“I want to ask you something, can you come close by?”
Postman came near the
window and heard her voice, “Postman uncle, though we did not
have any letters for
us, can I get some letter from you”.
Postman got amused
and replied, “I cannot give you any letter to you now!”
“But why?”
“I do not have any
paper to write a letter”
“You should be having
some advertisement papers, give me that as a letter”
“Perhaps, but I do
not have a pen to write something for you on that”
“Do letters need writing;
can’t you make something and give me?”
“Make something? I
don’t have time for that!”
“Oh, it’s very easy,
I am sure your kids would know it. I can make a small paper airplane with it
and you can give it to me”
Saying so, she
quickly folded the ad paper and made a simple airplane in seconds. Postman was
astonished seeing her dexterity and gave her a pat and the airplane! He did pay
attention to the steps in creating airplane, to impress his kids by making one.
“KaNaMeNaSe get
ready, let’s go out to see doctor” mother called her.
KaNaMeNaSe slowly got
down from her seat near window and took her pair of crutches and started walking
using them.
Spreading
positive thought not only energizes others, but also oneself. Let's
cheer others with our positive thoughts amidst our own problems and
challenges.
