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Our last article of short stories became so popular, that we decided to create another
list, in which every story has a simple moral behind it.
The longer he lived, the more bile he was becoming and the more poisonous were his
words. People avoided him, because his misfortune became contagious. It was even
unnatural and insulting to be happy next to him.
But one day, when he turned eighty years old, an incredible thing happened.
Instantly everyone started hearing the rumour:
After a couple of minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.
When he told the same joke for the third time no one laughed anymore.
On the way they had to cross a stream. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down
the stream and the salt bag also fell into the water. The salt dissolved in the water and
hence the bag became very light to carry. The donkey was happy.
Then the donkey started to play the same trick every day.
The salt seller came to understand the trick and decided to teach a lesson to it. The
next day he loaded a cotton bag on the donkey.
Again it played the same trick hoping that the cotton bag would be still become lighter.
But the dampened cotton became very heavy to carry and the donkey suffered. It learnt
a lesson. It didn’t play the trick anymore after that day, and the seller was happy.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand;
Then they went to the Dean and said they had gone out to a wedding last night and on
their way back the tire of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back.
So they were in no condition to take the test.
The Dean thought for a minute and said they can have the re-test after 3 days. They
thanked him and said they will be ready by that time.
On the third day, they appeared before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a
Special Condition Test, all four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test.
They all agreed as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.
The Test consisted of only 2 questions with the total of 100 Points:
It was an incredibly hot day, and a lion was feeling very hungry.
He came out of his den and searched here and there. He could find only a small hare.
He caught the hare with some hesitation. “This hare can’t fill my
stomach” thought the lion.
As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He
thought;
Vijay and Raju were friends. On a holiday they went walking into a forest, enjoying the
beauty of nature. Suddenly they saw a bear coming at them. They became frightened.
Raju, who knew all about climbing trees, ran up to a tree and climbed up quickly. He
didn’t think of Vijay. Vijay had no idea how to climb the tree.
Vijay thought for a second. He’d heard animals don’t prefer dead bodies, so he fell to
the ground and held his breath. The bear sniffed him and thought he was dead. So, it
went on its way.
Vijay replied, “The bear asked me to keep away from friends like
you” …and went on his way.
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and
that she didn’t know how she was going to make it.
She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was
solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed
each on a high fire.
Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second
pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without
saying a word to his daughter.
The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After
twenty minutes he turned off the burners.
He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out
and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the
same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato
went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put
in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling
water, they changed the water and created something new.
One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes
hanging from over a lofty branch.
Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, “They’re probably sour
anyway,” and proceeded to walk away.
Moral of the story:
It’s easy to despise what you can’t have.
A slave, ill-treated by his master, runs away to the forest. There he comes across a lion
in pain because of a thorn in his paw. The slave bravely goes forward and removes the
thorn gently.
Some days later, the slave’s master comes hunting to the forest and catches many
animals and cages them. The slave is spotted by the masters’ men who catch him and
bring him to the cruel master.
The master asks for the slave to be thrown into the lion’s cage.
The slave is awaiting his death in the cage when he realizes that it is the same lion that
he had helped. The slave rescued the lion and all other caged animals.
Moral of the story:
One should help others in need, we get the rewards of our helpful acts in return.
Summary
Here’s a quick recap on the 10 best short moral stories: