Cooperation

We must all recognize that cooperation is an important value we should learn, acquire, and practice. Especially because this beautiful value can take the form of helping others or helping ourselves by others’ aid to us—all are different forms of cooperation and care in carrying it out. It may ward off some evils from us and, in its wake, send the wicked away. We have long heard that unity is strength and that the many prevail over individual courage alone, making those who cooperate together like a tightly knit building, each part supporting the other, as happened in our story today. ...

In one of the places full of roses, greenery, flowers, and fruits on trees, one of the merchants placed a beehive on the edge of one of the rivers, in a location far from sight. The Queen and the Workers: The queen bee rejoiced at this choice, showing features of joy and delight. She decided to give instructions to the workers and males. The working bees began working hard, without fatigue or boredom, flying over flowers to absorb nectar and make honey. ...

One day, it was raining from a little boy’s homework book. There was a group of beautiful rainbow colors, and a conversation was going on between them about what each of them had given the black color, because the little boy had not used it at all. The other beautiful rainbow colors were angry about this matter, and they started to quarrel and say: You do not deserve to sit with us in this place. For the little boy does not like to use you in his drawings. He uses us all to draw natural beautiful pictures with our bright colors, but you do not have any place in those beautiful pictures. ...

It is told that in a beautiful forest filled with tall trees and huge plants, there were four small friends: the duck Toote, the rabbit Bebo, the bear Dodo, and the mouse Fofu. The four friends were accustomed to playing together every day. One day the friends decided to build a cabin to play and gather in it, and to make it from brick, straw, and clay. The four friends began dividing and distributing tasks among themselves until they could build the small cabin. To start this, Fofu suggested that they conduct a draw to distribute the tasks. Bebo’s share was to collect clay from the pond, Toote collected wood and cut it, while Fofu dug in the ground to place the cabin’s foundations, and Dodo’s turn came at the end to put straw on the roof of the cabin. ...

There was a simple man working in cleaning clothes, and he had a donkey and a horse. The donkey carried the clothes to the river, washed them with the water, and the donkey returned another time to the house, and the horse carried the simple man to the market and returned with him to the house. The donkey thought he works more than the horse. On Sunday the man and the horse were sick and the work was on the way to the river with the donkey. The donkey walked with him excessively until he escaped from the river. The donkey was carrying a large basket of dirty clothes on his back. ...

One day, there were three brothers from chickens. One was a cook, the second a carpenter, and the third a bricklayer. The three brothers decided to build houses for themselves to live in. The three brothers started the decision to build houses and began building. The first decided to build his house from straw, the second decided to build his house from wood, and the third decided to build his house from brick. ...