A group of beautiful gray ducks live on the farm. The ducks would wake up every morning and go to a small river near the farm to swim and play happily. One day, the white arrogant duck came, boasting about her white color and long feathers, feeling she was more beautiful than the gray-colored ducks.
The gray ducks had become accustomed to the white duck’s arrogance. They didn’t care about her words, and when she asked to play with them, they refused because she was arrogant. She kept repeating words of arrogance and admiration for her beauty, even belittling the gray ducks and describing them as ugly.
The white duck sat on the riverbank watching the gray ducks playing and having fun in the water. A chicken came and greeted the gray ducks. The gray ducks invited her to play with them outside the pond. The chicken agreed, but the white duck became angry because the chicken had black feathers. How could the gray ducks like her and invite her to play with them, but they wouldn’t play with her?
The duck thought of a trick to make her color look like the black chicken’s color that the gray ducks loved and constantly invited to play with them. The white duck hurried and jumped into the water, then came out and rolled in a pile of black coal. Indeed, coal dust stuck to the white duck’s feathers, making her color extremely black like coal. Her appearance became frightening to anyone who saw her.
The white duck approached the gray ducks in the pond after her color had become black. She thought that by this she would gain the gray ducks’ approval, and they would agree to let her participate in playing with them. But as soon as the white duck approached, the gray ducks ran, feeling fear, thinking she was a scary monster disguised in duck clothes.
The white duck was sad and cried. She tried to explain to the gray ducks what she had done to gain their admiration, but he kept running and left the pond. The white duck decided to restore her white color. She jumped into the water and washed from the coal dust that had completely covered her feathers. Her feathers returned to white color. She apologized to her friends and told them she wouldn’t act superior to them again. The duck learned a great lesson, which is that it doesn’t matter what your color or shape is, but what’s important is that friends remain good to each other and share with love without arrogance or superiority.