A shipwreck survivor drifted to an uninhabited island. He kept praying, hoping there would be a boat come to rescue him. But two days later, he was still there, he had not seen any boats around.
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He did not know how long he had to stay there until he could be found by boats. So as a last resort, he finally built a simple shack.
One day when he was in the woods finding food for the day, he saw heavy smoke from his shack. He ran to the shack as soon as possible, but still too late, his only place was gone in the fire.
He lost all his hopes, he was sitting by the beach and asked God: “Did I do something wrong? Why did you take my shack away? Does that mean I deserve to die on this deserted island?”
Hours later, a big boat came to this island and rescued him, they said they saw the smoke from this island and they knew it’s an uninhabited island, so that must be a S.O.S from somebody.
Once upon a time, the frog neighborhood had a climbing competition, the destination was the top of the tall iron tower. There were lots of frogs standing under the tower to watch and discuss, none of them believed any of the competitors could get to the top of the tower.
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“As a frog, to get the top of the tower is impossible!” “We should stay on the ground, we don’t have wings, claiming that height is the most dangerous thing to our frogs!” “Right! see?more frogs falling down….” “It’s really a bad idea to have a frog climbing competition, no frog is going to win, we just waste our time here……” “We are just frogs , the beautiful sky does not belong to us….”
Some of the competitors heard from the spectators, they felt so discouraged, so when the height got higher and higher, more and more frogs fell.
At the end, only one frog kept going up and up, the spectators still believed there’s no way he could get to the top, but he never showed that he was frustrated for doing that . Yes! finally he got to the top of the tower, he won!
When other frogs went to ask him how he made that happen, they found out he was a deaf !
A woman walked outside and saw three old men were sitting in front of her yard. They long white beards looked spiritual and peaceful.
She didn’t think she had met them before, but she was being very nice and asked them if they would like to come in and have something to eat.
An old man stroked his long white beard and introduced theirselvs to the woman: “his name is SUCCESS, and the other one named WEALTH, my name is LOVE, you can’t invite us all, you only can invite one of us.
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The woman went inside and talked to the family, the husband said, of course, invite WEALTH, the woman said, SUCCESS is better, but the young daughter had different option, she wanted to invite LOVE.
After a short discussion, the woman walked outside and told them they want to invite LOVE. The three old men started smiling and said, good choice, now we can all come inside. The woman was confused: but you said I only can invite one.
The old men said together: “ if you invite the other two, we can’t come in together, but you invite love, we will always follow LOVE .”
There was a white bunny, when she had grown up, she didn’t just expect more carrots, she was starting to expect romantic relationships.
There was a gray bunny who cares about the white bunny alot, he always brought lots of carrots to her, but she wasn’t sure if he was the right one for her.
She wanted to enrich her life and find her love, so she said goodbye to him and carried lots of carrots, went to the deep forest.
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The first one she met was a goose, she felt that the goose is so attractive, so they fell in love.
But soon she felt she couldn’t keep up with the goose, when he was flying she had to keep running and always looking up, she was tired and confused if the relationship was right.
One day, the goose said he is leaving, he can’t bear that she can’t fly with him.
The white bunny was so sad, that was her first relationship, she cried and then told herself that means the goose is not the right one.
After the break up, the white bunny met a bear. The bear wasn’t her type, but the bear said because the forest is dangerous to her, so he will stay with her to protect her until she finds her right one.
The bear treated her so well, when the weather got cold, he would put her into the hole in the tree and use his body to block the wind for her, when they didn’t get enough food, he would save his dinner as her breakfast for the second morning….
After a while, the white bunny thought: the bear is really good to me, but I don’t want someone block the wind for me. I want someone who can cuddle with me when it’s cold, and I don’t like his food either….
At the meantime, the bear met a fox. The fox is beautiful, she directly told the bear that she likes him and wants to be with him. The bear told the white bunny: “I don’t like the fox, I still want to be with you.” But one day in the morning when the white bunny woke up, she couldn’t find the bear anywhere, she knew he left with the fox without saying goodbye.
The white bunny started packing to hit the road alone, she found there’s more carrots than before, she thought: finally the bear fingered out what I really like, but he had left. I don’t think he’ll come back to me.
On a rainy night, the white bunny met a wolf, she knew she would get hurt to be with the wolf, but she couldn’t help to fall in love with him, although she had to be cautious all the time.
Yes, she was been hurt in that relationship like she already knew at the very beginning.
Luckily or finally, on another rainy night, the wolf told her:” just get out of my face, I’m tired of you!”
The white bunny packed again, she didn’t have much carrots left. She sat under a big tree and thought: should I keep going or just stay here and enjoy the scenery. I shouldn’t fell in love with the wolf, maybe I shouldn’t had started this forest journey to find my love. I don’t even know what love is….
She reminisced about the past being with the gray bunny, but she was so far away from their old place.She was not sure if she could go back there again.
Suddenly, she heard a rustling noise behind the tree, when she wrapped her head around the tree to check, there’s the gray bunny putting more carrots in her bag….
When a man was roaming in the forest, suddenly a hungry tiger rushed up to him with a roar. He immediately ran with the fastest speed he ever had in his life, but the tiger was chasing him so hard. He ran and ran all the way, and finally, there was nowhere to run, he was standing on the edge of the cliff, he thought quickly: Instead of being caught by a tiger, bitten, dismembered and die, it’s better to jump into the cliff, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.
He jumped into the cliff and was very lucky to get stuck on a plum tree, and it was full of plums. When he was rejoicing, he heard a huge roar from the depths of the cliff. Looking towards the bottom of the cliff, a fierce lion was looking up at him. It made him tremble, but then he thought: Even I will be killed by the lion, but it is not any worse than killed by that tiger, they are the same beasts.
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When he was relieved, he heard another sound, after a closer look, two mice, one black and one white were biting the branches of the plum tree. He panicked for a while, then relieved soon, he thought: It’s better to die by falling from the broken branches than eaten and killed by the lion.
After he calmed down, he was a little hungry and picked some plums to eat. He felt that was the most delicious plums in his life. He found a triangular branch and thought: maybe he’s going to die sooner or later, but nothing he can do with that right there, why not take a good rest, let his luck to handle the parts he can’t help.
He fell asleep deeply on the stable triangular branch. After waking up, he found that the black and the white mouse,the tiger and the lion were gone. So he followed the branches and carefully climbed the cliff, finally he was out of danger.
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when he was asleep, the hungry tiger couldn’t wait anymore, it roared and jumped off the cliff. The black and the white mouse heard that and ran away in a panic. The tiger fought fiercely with the lion under the cliff and they both escaped with injuries.
Sometimes the suffering in life is such like the hungry tiger in the story is chasing us crazy, alternating days and nights are like the white mouse and the black mouse are chewing the branches, finally, time will be gone and everything will be gone, yes, the death is like the lion in the bottom of the cliff is waiting for us, so why not just like the guy in the story knowing the worst thing forward but still enjoy the delicious plums and take a good rest, when he wakes up, what a surprise is waiting for him.
If you don’t like death then every present we are alive worth being cherished. When you give more respect to today then you will receive more surprises tomorrow.
A kid ran into the mountains and unintentionally shouted to the valley: “ Hey…” as soon as the voice fell, echoes of “hey…” came from all directions. Seemed like mountains giving the response. The kid was surprised and confused, he shouted again: “who are you?” and the mountains also replied: “who are you ?” the kid kept shouting: “why didn’t you tell me?” and the mountains said same: “why didn’t you tell me?” the kid was getting angry and shouted: “ I hate you! ” then, the voice from the whole world was: “I hate you…I hate you…”
The kid ran back home crying and told his mom about that. Mom said to him: “ well, how about go back to the mountains and shout ‘ I love you’ to see what will happen .”
The kid ran to the mountains again and shouted “I love you” to the valley, this time the kid surrounded by “I love you…I love you…”
