The Ant and the Dove     

 AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.  A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.  The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank.  Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches.  The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot.  In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.

Lesson: One good turn deserves another
Reflection:
     In real life we believe that if you did good to others you will be treated good as well. It is a give and take relationship wherein if you give or do good things unto others you will always receive
goodness too. And it doesn't matter who you are in doing great things as long as you are determined to do it. Just like me, there are times that I did great things to other people, and guess what? I always take goodness from them!

HERE WAS ONCE A Countryman who possessed the most extraorinary goose you can imagine. Every morning when he went to visit the nest, the goose had laid one single beautiful, glittering, golden egg. The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the goose because she gave him only a single golden egg each day. He was not getting rich fast enough and was becomming quite greedy. Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious goose was dead. •Lesson: Those who have plenty and want more may loose all they have. Reflection: These story is all about being not contented person. This is true to real life story which we always take for granted all the things that we have. But in the end, instead of having more than what you have it may loose instead. Just as what Mary Rose told me that there was once a kid who asked his teacher what is love. So the teacher told him to get outside and choose the best leaf among the rest. After a while the kid went back without any leaf at his hand. Then the teacher asked him why. He said that he already found it but left it in order to find another but unluckily when he went back it was gone. There are many times that I am not contented, that's why when I want more I loose it all.

The Fox and the Grapes

ONE hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the things to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.” Lesson: “IT IS EASY TO DESPISE WHAT YOU CANNOT GET.” Reflection: I already experienced that like kinda mixed feelings of being depressed and jealous. For instance I really longed to buy a thing but I couldn't afford it so what I usually do is to tell myself that it's bad and ugly. That's really the price of not getting anything, NOTHING!

THE GREEDY DOG

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow footbridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.

If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a stupid Dog he had been.

Lesson: It is very foolish to be greedy. Reflection: Honestly I'm sometimes greedy, part of not being perfect. So you can call me a foolish one, if you can dare. I'm greedy especially when it comes to foods. I know it's not obvious right? Me too I cannot believe that I didn't even gain weight knowing that I am greedy. Allow me to site an experience. When the time I didn't bother to give time for the mass and it was a very miserable day.

THE TWO GOATS

Over a river there was a very narrow bridge. One day a goat was crossing this bridge. Just at the

middle of the bridge he met another goat. There was no room for them to pass.

"Go back," said one goat to the other, "there is no room for both of us".

"Why should I go back?", said the other goat. "Why should not you go back?"

" You must go back", said the first goat, "because I am stronger than you."

"You are not stronger than I", said the second goat.

"We will see about that", said the first goat, and he put down his horns to fight.

"Stop!", said the second goat. " If we fight, we shall both fall into the river and be drowned. Instead I have a plan- I shall lie down, and you may walk over me."

Then the wise goat lay down on the bridge, and the other goat walked lightly over him. So they passed each other, and went on their ways.

Lesson:It's better to find solutions than an excuse.

Reflection:

In life we faces different obstacles that may cause our breakdown. I also experienced this kind of situation. In the time when someone asked me to do something new to me, you know what I did? I told that person not me because i don't have the capacity to do it. So come to think of it, instead of finding a way to do it what I did was I made an excuse.

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. "Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?" "I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same." "Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew... Lesson: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.

Reflection:

We have that kind of trait that we only work when it is already at last minute. The right thing to do is to be always prepared at all times for we don't know what will happen next. So you must be a Girl scout which is always prepared at all times. Imagine if you come in a situation that you don't know anything? It's kinda freaking out right? Prepare if you have your goal which is to make success yours.

A Wise Crow

A TAME Crow had not had anything to drink for a long time. There was a little water in a pitcher, but it was so low that she could not reach it. What was she to do? She tried to break the pitcher with her beak, and then to overturn it on the ground; but it was too hard and heavy for that. Then she thought of a plan. She picked up a number of little stones and dropped them one by one into the pitcher. In this way the water was soon raised so high that she could easily reach it.

The Hare and the Tortoise

What a slow fellow you are," said a Hare to a Tortoise one day. "I pity any one who has to creep along as you do!"

"Do you?" said the Tortoise. "Suppose we run a race to the foot of yonder mountain. Slow as I am, I will beat you."

"What a boaster you are!" said the Hare. "You know very well that you can not. But of course I will race with you, although it will be no race at all."

"Let us ask the Fox to mark off the bounds and see that the race is fair," said the Tortoise.

"Agreed!" said the Hare; and he laughed at the thought of such a race.

So they called in the Fox, and he showed them where to start, and how far to run. Then, at word from him, the race began.

The Tortoise lost no time, but started at once and kept straight on.

The Hare leaped along gaily for a minute or two, and then, when he saw that he had left the Tortoise out of sight, he stopped to play a while. Then he went on a little farther, and, as the sun was hot, he lay down among the grass by the roadside to take a nap.

He woke up by and by, and ran as fast as he could. But when he came to the goal at the foot of the mountain, the Tortoise was already there.

"Slow and steady wins the race!" cried the Fox.

Lesson: "Slow and steady wins the race!"

Reflection:

Have you experienced of being to excited ? As what I've observe when I I'm in this kind of situation you may lost your mind and may be you become over confident that may caused of losing. But if you are so relaxed and you did control the situation, I'm pretty sure that you got what it takes to win.

THE FOX OUTWITTED

A FOX one day met a Cock who was famous for his wisdom, and the two cunning fellows began to talk.

"How many tricks can you do?" asked the Fox.

"Well," answered the Cock, "I could do three if I were to try. How many can you do?"

"I could do threescore and three if I were to try," said the Fox.

"Tell me about some of them," said the Cock.

"Well," said the Fox, "one thing that I can do is to shut my left eye and give a great shout. It isn't every animal that can do that."

"Pshaw!" said the Cock, "that is easy enough."

"Let me see if you can do it," said the Fox.

The Cock shut his left eye and crowed as loud as he could: "Cock-a-doodle-do!"

But he shut the eye that was next to the Fox, and, before he could think, the Fox had grabbed him by the neck and started to his den with him. The farmer's wife saw what was done, and as Reynard went scampering down the road, she cried out:

"Drop that chicken! He belongs to me!"

"Tell her that I belong to you," said the Cock to the Fox, as he fluttered and gasped for breath.

The Fox opened his mouth to do so, and the Cock sprang quickly away and flew into a tree where he was out of reach. As the Fox slunk away among the bushes, the proud fellow shut one eye and gave a loud crow: "Cock-a-doodle-doo-oo!"

Lesson:

Don't be fooled by others complement.

Reflection:

We always believe unto others especially when it is a complement. We don't know, they are already slowly pulling us down. Just like when someone said to you that you are great but at your back he or she backbites you. So it is good to trust the other people but not to th extent because in the end you are left behind.

The Dog and the Wolf

ONE warm day a Dog lay down under a tree in a field, and was soon fast asleep. In a little while a Wolf came out of the woods and was about to seize him and eat him up.

"Cousin Wolf," cried the Dog, "don't you see how thin I am? I am not fit for you to eat now. If you will only wait a few days, you will find that I shall make you a better meal. Master is going to have a big dinner next week, and then there will be so much to eat that I shall grow plump and fat."

"Well, if that is the case," said the Wolf, "I think I will wait a little while. You may go now, and live till after the dinner."

In two weeks the Wolf came back, but the Dog was not in the field. He was asleep on the house top.

"Come down, and let me see how fat you are," said the Wolf.

The Dog woke up and said: "Cousin Wolf, if you ever find me asleep in the field again, you may eat me. But if you are wise, you will not wait till after the master has had that big dinner."

Lesson:

Don't fool others if you don't want though.

Reflection:

Sometimes we think that we are wise enough to look down others capacity. In fact, we use being wise in bad things that in the end we might regret. We fool others that ends us being fooled by them. If I where you don't use your capacity in bad intentions instead use it in doing good.

Thirsty Crow

Lesson: There's always solutions in every problem if you are wise enough.

Reflection:

God does not give a problem if there is no solution or an answer. God's point of giving it is to strengthen us and learn from it. Just like the crow, it really did find a way to overcome that problem which is the absence of water. And because it was wise enough to find a solution, he was able to survive.