Parable

In a solitary garden, beautiful in its corners, good in character, lived a violet contented among her peers, swaying joyfully among the grass stems. On one morning, crowned with dewdrops, she raised her head and looked around her. She saw a rose stretching toward the heights with a slender stature and a head towering proudly as if it were a flame of fire above a lamp made of emerald. The Violet: The violet opened her blue mouth and sighed, saying, “How little is my fortune among the flowers, and how low is my station among them! Nature created me small and insignificant. I live clinging to the earth’s surface and cannot raise my stature toward the blueness of the sky or turn my face toward the sun as the roses do.” ...

Long ago in one of the poor villages, there lived an old poor man. Despite his poverty, the king envied him because he owned a beautiful white horse unlike any other. The king tried repeatedly to buy it but to no avail. Though the king offered him an excellent price, the old man refused, saying: “This is not just an ordinary horse to me; it is my friend, so how can I sell my friend? Forgive me, my lord, for this is impossible.” ...

In one of the ancient kingdoms lived a miserable king who was very fat and fleshy. He suffered greatly from his increased weight, so he gathered the wise men to look for a solution to his problem. He couldn’t walk and move much, and pains and ailments gathered upon him. The king lived in misery and torment because of his sick body. But unfortunately, none of the wise men could do anything for the king, so he was afflicted with grief and worry and lived in misery that spread throughout the entire kingdom, until a wise physician came to the kingdom. When the king learned of his matter, he summoned him and asked him to treat him from his condition, in exchange for pouring out money and gifts upon him. ...

It is told that long ago there was a city with a strange law. Every year, a different king from the previous one ruled it. The people of this city would choose this king and install him on the first day of each year. After his term ended, they would send him to a distant island to spend the rest of his life there. After that, they would choose another king, and so on. ...

Flood waves attacked the Sri Lankan shore fiercely, killing thousands of people, destroying houses, hospitals, and schools on land, and throwing fishing boats into the air to settle crushed above the roofs of collapsed houses. Giant ships moved like paper boats children play with, played with by giant waves and thrown in the end above the tops of felled coconut trees. The Occurrence of the Disaster: The residents of the small poor fishing village overlooking the Indian Ocean didn’t feel the approach of the giant waves that surprised them, hitting the shore at a height exceeding ten meters. These waves called tsunami rush under the surface of deep water at a speed reaching the speed of a plane, without revealing themselves, then suddenly crash into the shore, rise high, and rush with terrifying force to drown and destroy everything. ...

The hunters saw him beating, pounding, and crying, so they said he was mad. They thought the white polar bear, as he hit the water, kicked the snow, screamed, and slapped his face, had gone mad! The White Polar Bear: But he wasn’t mad. He was exhausted, hungry, and distressed, suffering from failure in obtaining the food he loved from ringed seals. These seals usually hide in the water under the ice cover. He walked and walked until he found one of the holes that seals make in the ice to breathe from. He would approach stealthily, holding his breath, and as soon as a seal appeared, he would rush to snatch it and devour it. For a long time he had been walking stumblingly without finding anything to eat. ...

The events of the story revolve around the difference between freedom and slavery, where two friends meet - a dog and a wolf. The dog’s condition was much better than the wolf’s. The dog was fat and healthier than the wolf, while the wolf was destitute, extremely thin to the point that the bones of his body protruded from the heavy burden and hunger. As soon as the wolf found his friend the dog, they talked about their conditions. Each confessed to the other what had happened to him. Despite the dog’s comfortable condition, when he invited the wolf to share in his work and prosperous life, the wolf refused strongly, for the reasons that will follow in the story. ...

In one of the countries overlooking the river, there was a beautiful farm with a spacious house where a gluttonous woman lived, who loved food very much, especially chicken eggs. She would go out every day from the house to the farm where she raised chickens to get delicious eggs, and she would thank the chickens for these eggs. The gluttonous woman would enjoy eating the chicken eggs and have them for breakfast. One morning, the gluttonous woman went out to collect eggs from the farm. The gluttonous woman collected the eggs as usual, and the woman would enjoy eating the eggs in different ways every morning, sometimes fried and sometimes boiled. ...

There was a peasant named Jaber who lived in a village. He had a small plot of land. On a hot day, the peasant Jaber was digging in the ground when suddenly his pick struck something. The peasant decided to continue digging, then he found a large pot inside the ground. The large pot was rich because it would provide the peasant with food for a hundred people. The peasant thought the pot wouldn’t be of any use to him, so he decided to dig deeper, hoping he would find something else. The peasant continued digging. ...

One day, in one of the simple villages, there lived a poor man who worked as a weaver. He would weave clothes every day from morning to evening, then go out to sell those clothes and get money to buy food for his family. One day, while weaving some clothes, his spindle suddenly broke. The weaver was extremely sad because it was the only means of earning a living, and it was difficult for him to get a new spindle after his spindle broke. ...