Bedtime Stories: The Foolish Monkeys
This a lovely short story for kids. This story is about a group of
monkeys and their survival plans when confronted with the winter cold.
Bedtime Stories: The Foolish Monkeys
Once upon a time, there was a very big and dark forest. A certain
group of monkeys went to this forest to live in. Life wasn’t very easy for the
monkeys. It was the winter season and the monkeys struggled to survive for the
nights were freezing cold. They sought ways to keep themselves warm.
One night, while they thought of ways to keep themselves warm.
They saw a firefly and thought it was a strand of fire. All the monkeys started
shouting fire, fire, fire, yeah we got fire! They were all rejoicing that they
have seen a fire.
Few of the monkeys tried to get hold of the firefly but it
escaped. They became sad when they couldn’t catch the fire. They
said to themselves that they couldn’t live in such an environment if they can’t
get fire to keep them warm.
At night the next day, they saw a group of fireflies. This time
the monkeys were not backing down. They caught few fireflies and put them in a
hole they had dug earlier in the land and tried to blow them into flames.
They toiled all through the night trying to blow the flies into
flames not knowing that they were flies!
Nearby, an owl had been watching the monkeys for two days,
struggling to make fire from the fireflies. “Hello! These are not fire! They
are fireflies! You can’t get fire from them,” The owl said to the monkeys.
The monkeys laughed so hard at the owl. “What do you know about
fire making? You are old by the way so don’t disturb us,” replied one of the
monkeys.
“This is a fruitless and foolish act. You cannot make fire from
fireflies, hear my words,” warned the owl again.
The monkeys disregarded her warnings and continued what they were
doing.
“You are wasting your time and effort so much. Why don’t you go
down to the cave nearby and seek shelter, that way you won’t feel very cold at
night. You won’t get fire form these fireflies, they can’t give you fire,” the
owl warned again.
“Get away from this place!” One of the monkeys shouted in
frustration.
The owl left them.
The monkey kept trying to blow the fireflies into flame until
midnight. They then realized that the words of the old owl had been accurate
all along. They were trying to blow fireflies into flames. They realized how
foolish they have been and decided to seek shelter in the nearby cave.
They went into the cave and avoided the cold of the night.
We are not always accurate all the time. Be open to advice and
suggestions. They might help put us on the right path instead of wasting our
time and efforts.
We trust you definitely learnt a valuable life lesson through this
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