Before
several centuries, there was a very large, dense and dark forest. A group of
monkeys arrived at the forest. It was winter season and the monkeys struggled
hard to survive the freezing cold nights. They were hunting for fire to get warm.
One
night, they saw a firefly and considered it a dab of fire. All the monkey in
the group shouted ‘fire, fire, fire yeah we got fire’.
A
couple of monkeys tried to catch the firefly and it escaped. They were sad as
they could not catch the fire. They were talking to themselves that they couldn’t
live in the cold if they didn’t get the fire.
The
next night, again they saw many fireflies. After several attempts, the monkeys
caught a few fireflies. They put the fireflies in a hole dug in the land and
tried to blow the flies.
The
blew the flies very hard without knowing the fact that they were flies. An owl
was watching the activities of the monkeys. The owl reached the monkey and told
them, “Hey old owl you don’t know anything about how to make fire. Don’t
disturb us.”
The Owl
warned the monkeys again and asked them to stop their foolish act. “Monkeys,
you cannot make fire from the flies, please hear my words.”
The
monkey tried to make fire from the flies. The Owl told them to stop acting
foolish. “ You are struggling so much, go take your shelter in a nearby cave.
You can save yourself from the freezing cold.” The monkeys shouted at the Owl
and it left. The monkeys were so foolish and repeating the same activity upto
mid night. They got very tired and realized that the words of Owl were correct
and they were trying to blow a fly and not a fire.
They
then sheltered themselves at the cave and escaped from the cold.
We may
go wrong many times and should seek and accept the advice or suggestions given
by others.
The End.
