Life is not a race, take it all slowly, trust the process than rushing things to happen, and in the end, you will regret everything.
Earlier, my son asks me to tell him a story about the horse and the turtle before he sleeps.
Him: Ma, can you make a story about a horse and a turtle?
Me: What do you want to hear about it?
Him: I want them to race together. I see it on the National Geographic channel that they compare who among the two is the fastest runner. Can you make a story about it, please?
As a mother, you don't want your son to be upset. He wants to hear a story that is made up impromptu than reading it from the book. And I am a kind of a mother that also loves making stories and relating them in reality so that he can also learn a lesson on it and use it in the future.
So the magic of the mind begins.
The Horse and The Turtle
By: Pretty Mom_96
In an open area near the forest and a swamp, there was a boastful horse named brown. Brown loves to tease every animal around him especially the turtle named igloo. Igloo is a shy type of turtle who loves being alone.
One day, brown saw igloo walking near the ranch.
Brown: Woooo, the slow and loser turtle is lost in my area.
Igloo: Hello! There Brown, have a nice day. Sorry, I don't have much time to talk to you because I'm in hurry.
Brown: What? Are you serious? In hurry? it looks like your sleepy hahaha. Don't be silly igloo, you're such a joker.
Igloo: No! I'm not joking, maybe for you a walk too slow but for me, this is the fastest walk I ever made.
Brown: You're such a loser Igloo. (He continued laughing?
That time Igloo was being insulted by Brown. So Igloo answered brown unintentionally.
Igloo: Being slow is not mean that we the turtles are losers. This is what we are and we accept it heartily. You are the true loser you always teasing animals that are small and are not able to fight back against you.
Brown is shocked at how Igloo defends himself. No animals have done that before because they are so afraid to brown. So, Brown decided to invite Igloo to race to prove who is the real loser.
And Igloo agreed to race.
Brown: Okay, so let's meet tomorrow morning in the middle of the forest, far from this place. I will tell other animals to be witnesses of the race.
Igloo and Brown went home and prepare their selves for the upcoming race.
The sunrises beautifully and everyone are all ready to witness the race of the century between Igloo and Brown. All of the animals are cheering for Igloo.
The mechanic of the race is the first who can reach the last tree on the right side of the race track area will be the winner.
The race started and as expected the lead runner in the race is Brown.
Igloo is trying his best to finish the race without cheating.
He runs with a smile on his face. Because he knows that he can do it. He takes it slowly but surely.
After how many kilometers that brown has achieved, he felt tired and decided to rest a bit.
After the tiring run, he realizes to cheat so that he can easily win and finish the race. Brown took a shortcut, but an unexpected scenario happens.
The shortcut he took by is a private territory where the owner of the land put their privately owned cheetahs. Cheetahs are fastest than a horse.
One of the cheetahs is looking for food and suddenly saw Brown trespassing into their area, so the cheetah chases Brown and wants to eat him up.
Brown ran very fast as he could just to save his life. While he is running away from the cheetah, brown went lost in the middle of the forest and away from the race track.
While Igloo is still trying to reach the finish line even he is already tired.
After how many hours of walking and running. Igloo saw the last tree on the right side of the race track area, which means the finish line.
As he gets near to the tree, he wonders why Brown is not yet arrived at the finish line? He thinks that maybe brown is making fun of him again so he stamps on the finish line and gets the ribbon as an indication that he won the race.
All the animals are started cheering Igloo's victory and Brown arrived in the area. Asking for forgiveness and accepting that he lose the race because he cheated to make it to the finish line as soon as possible but unfortunately he was chased by a cheetah and lost in the middle of the forest.
After that race, brown never tease any of the animals near him on the contrary he learn how to be polite and good to everyone.
The lesson of the story:
One day you will thank yourself for not giving up in the middle of the storm. Always believe that someday you will succeed despite hard because there is no victory without a struggle.
Don't give up even you're tired. Because God is there preparing the best for you. If there's no pain, you won't gain anything.
Be patient in everything and Trust God's process.
Thank You for reading!
