Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Crow, The Frog & The Well

Once upon a time there was a crow (in a forest of course). He used to leave his place (tree of course) in the morning in search of food and fun. He loved teasing the stray dogs because some dogs always disrupted his foods. He was a free and stud kind of crow so he used to roam through out the world. His daily work was to roam here and there to get some food and looking for some lady crows to ease his eyes and master brain (cleaver and wicked one!).
Time went on, he was a happy crow and dude of course so a lady crow felt in love with him and things went lovely for him. One day he was plying with some other crow kids and some monkeys jumping from one branch to the other branches of the tree. Suddenly a devastating earthquake came along with a huge tsunami and storm. He flew towards the tree where his mom dad lived, just to save them because they were old enough and couldn’t fly. He was late as the ugly storm takes over the trees. As he was a stud crow, he tried his level best to rescue his parents but finally failed. He got stuck in a tree branch when he was flying towards the sky through the shortest way and felt down. He got hit by the tree’s branch and its leaves and felt down. He saw the other crows, monkeys, and some other birds prisoned in between the branches of that heavy tree.
Well, he was a cleaver, dude and overconfident crow so he tried really very hard to come out just before the arrival of the tsunami that was about to wash his away. He finally came out but he was  late and had to pay the cost to fight against the natural disaster. He started flying high in the sky but he found no one was there. I mean the birds were not visible to him there. He flew higher and higher with his  half broken and bleeding feathers and placed his feet on the top of a mountain that was sitting away from his forest.
Time went on but he started feeling like hell without his family and girlfriend, of course. He used to cry washing away his sorrow with the tears trickling down his cheeks daily at night so that other birds couldn’t see him crying because he never cried. With the passage of time he had learnt to live without his family and girlfriend and got new feathers meanwhile.
[After few months!]
It was the month of mid June and he wanted to enjoy his new feathers and started flying high in the sky away form the mountain top crossing the nearby towns, cities, villages and fields. After few hours of his flight he started feeling thirsty as his throat was drying and forcing him to have some water. He looked downward and flew towards a lake. He became sad after getting the lake dry. Yes, he flew enough and reached in a dreary desert. He started roaming here and there looking for few drops of water. As he was a cool and confident crow he kept searching waters. Finally, he saw a well in the middle of the village on the outskirt of that desert. He flew down and sat on the boundary of the well to check whether there was water inside it or it was dry like the lake. The crow started dancing suddenly after hearing some voice of the frogs. Yes, the voice of the frogs that was coming out of the well was proving that the well was not dry.
After seeing a crow dancing and singing madly, some stud frogs came out to see  why the hell was the crow dancing and singing so loudly disrupting their peaceful atmosphere.
‘Hey, what happened to you?’ one of them asked the crow.
‘Nothing,’ the crow answered stopping his feet.
‘Then why are you dancing like mad?’ the head lady frog asked.
‘Actually……..,’ the crow started.
‘Fu*k off, you assh*le,’ one of the stud frogs shouted pointing his eyes towards the crow.
‘Shut up,’ the cute head lady frog said to the stud frog.
‘So, you were looking for nothing and started singing and dancing madly here, right?’ the sweet and sensible head lady frog said to the crow, who was looking here and there recklessly.
‘Actually, I was looking for water and I roamed a lot to get it and finally got it here so…,’ the crow answered.
‘Hmmm,’ the frogs uttered nodding their heads.
‘Okay, enjoy the water,’ the head lady frog said.
The crow started flying inside the well to have much awaited water but he failed as the well seemed deep enough to him. He tried twice but got hit by one of the walls of the well and started falling down but he tried hard and flew out of the well. The frogs started laughing at him.
‘Hey, may I help you?’ one old frog asked the crow.
‘No, thanks, you are old enough. I’ll get it by own,’ the crow answered setting his feathers tight to fly into the well again. He tried and failed for the third time too.
‘Hey, may I help you please?’ the head lady frog asked, who got impressed by his attempts and confidence. The crow started thinking for some time and answered ‘yes’. The head lady frog went into the well and brought a bucket full of water along with some food items. The hungry and thirsty crow finished water and food within few minutes. After finishing everything they both started chitchatting for some time and the other frogs had already left for the well. As the head lady frog was already impressed by the crow and the crow on the other hand was alone in this world and got a good friend. I mean they became good friends.
They started meeting everyday and chitchatting time got increased. She was happy with the new friend and their friendship got concrete with the passage of time.The crow started visit the well daily and the head lady frog had started gaining attention of the eyes of the rest of the frogs. The old frogs started raising their eyebrows whenever they saw them together sitting at the boundary of the well. As her friendship was not acceptable in her community so she was removed from the head lady position by the rest frogs.
The crow started asking her to roam  with him as the well seemed boring place to meet daily. After million of requests the lady frog said ‘yes’. But the problem was that she didn’t have feathers so she couldn’t fly like the crow.
[to be cont....]

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