|
16) The disobedient leaf (A fairy tale for adults)
Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334
79 74
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
16) The disobedient leaf
(A fairy tale for adults)
(translated by Bence)
It had been hanging there
for a long time. If it had been a fruit, it would have had to fall overripe
on the ground. However, it did not depend on the leaf to still hang there.
The tree held it tight, did not want to let it go.
"Where do you want
to go?" The tree asked his little sprout.
"It's true, I'm
hanging very high here and see a lot. But what's behind it, beyond the
horizon?" The leaf replied.
"Why are you
interested in that? Why don’t you ask the clouds, or the birds sitting beside
you on the branch?" sounded the critics of the other leaves.
"I want to gain my
own experience, to grasp everything with my senses!"
The surrounding trees and
their leaves also looked at the leaf with suspicious eyes. They did not like
someone else thinking and wanting something different like them.
"How can you be so
stubborn and antisocial?" They thought to themselves.
The leaf sometimes felt
lonely and misunderstood. What had it done? Was it a sin to dream a bit, to
send the senses flying with the birds and .........?
It hung there. It just
hung, it did not hold on anymore, it was held. Held by the tree that did not
want to let it go. Then the wind came to its aid. This heavenly child blew
strongly into the tree’s branches for several times. The tree groaned because
he did not want to lose any of his dear children. The leaves screamed because
they were afraid, fearful of the unknown. Only the small, disobedient leaf
was happy, shaking that iron hand that did not want to let it go. However,
suddenly it flew in the air, it was free. It enjoyed the absence of gravity.
The wind played with it, blew it up and down, to the right than to the left.
It heard high voices of
other leaves screaming in fright, and the deep voices of trees shouting
angrily. "What do you want, what are you doing?"
But the leaf did not want
to listen to them anymore. It flew and was free. Then the wind got quieter
and quieter and slowly stopped blowing. The leaf sank lower and lower. It was
a long way from its tree, but there were other trees.
"Where are you from? Where are you
going? Why did you leave your tree? Why did you leave your safety?"
Fortunately, our leaf did
not hear the last question, otherwise it would have wondered if all trees and
leaves were the same everywhere.
It fell into a small
brook in which other leaves danced on the waves. They played together
"Find me", danced around and much more. As it had found some
traveling companions who thought the same way as it did, the adventure was
even more enjoyable. They swam together, danced, parted again, met new
friends, saw wonderful landscapes, as the brook grew ever wider, becoming a
river and finally reached the sea. How wonderful life is, the leaf thought.
Then the summer was over.
The leaf was flushed onto an unknown shore, dug itself into the ground, to
look up at the sun the next year as a small tree sprout.
Let's hope our leaf has
learned something and will not even tell its own leaves that life is
dangerous.
|
|
-----------------------------------------------
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
-------------------------------------------------
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment