Small story for the New Year
The Christmas and my 10-day travel in Finland is over. It was very nice but I'll write more about it a bit later. Now just post a small story I got before Christmas. I found it quite nice and therefore I wanted to share it with you.
In Finland some people wish at the New Year: "Parempaa Uutta Vuotta!" It means: "A better New Year!". Some people might think that it's a very pessimistic way of thinking, as the current year wouldn't have been nice. I personally think that it's very optimistic mind-set. Think about it. There are always ways to make your life, the life of your closest ones and the World better. What are you going to do during the next year? I think that is a good thing ot think about now during these last hours of the year...
The story:
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake." a mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing", the dove answered.
"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story" the mouse said.
"I sat on the branch of a fire, close to its trunk, when it began to snow,
not heavily, not a raging blizzard, no just like in a dream without any violence.
Since I had time, I counted the snowflakes setting on the twigs and needles of my branch.
Their number was exactly 3,741,952, when the next snowflake dropped onto the branch -
"nothing more than nothing" as you say – the branch broke off."
Having said that the mouse went away.
The dove thought about the meaning of the story for a while and finally said to herself,
"Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come about in this world."
All the best for the starting year! Make it better in every way possible!
In Finland some people wish at the New Year: "Parempaa Uutta Vuotta!" It means: "A better New Year!". Some people might think that it's a very pessimistic way of thinking, as the current year wouldn't have been nice. I personally think that it's very optimistic mind-set. Think about it. There are always ways to make your life, the life of your closest ones and the World better. What are you going to do during the next year? I think that is a good thing ot think about now during these last hours of the year...
The story:
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake." a mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing", the dove answered.
"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story" the mouse said.
"I sat on the branch of a fire, close to its trunk, when it began to snow,
not heavily, not a raging blizzard, no just like in a dream without any violence.
Since I had time, I counted the snowflakes setting on the twigs and needles of my branch.
Their number was exactly 3,741,952, when the next snowflake dropped onto the branch -
"nothing more than nothing" as you say – the branch broke off."
Having said that the mouse went away.
The dove thought about the meaning of the story for a while and finally said to herself,
"Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come about in this world."
All the best for the starting year! Make it better in every way possible!
posted by Jouni at 2:48 PM
2 Comments:
Tuo Irwinin käännös on hyvä, Vexi Salmikin olis ylpeä... :) Koitas järjestää ittes Prahaan helmikuussa - ja koulu ei kelpaa tekosyyksi!
Hello Jouni!
I was just studying for my exam of English literatures and I found a passage of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe which really struck me...
This is it :
I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me - for I was likely to have but few heirs - as to deliver my thoughts from daily poring over them, and afflicting my mind; and as my reason began now to master my despondency, I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I stated very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus:-
Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
Good: But I am alive; and not drowned, as all my ship's company were.
Evil: I am singled out and separated, as it were, from all the world, to be miserable.
Good: But I am singled out, too, from all the ship's crew, to be spared from death; and He that miraculously saved me from death can deliver me from this condition.
Evil: I am divided from mankind - a solitaire; one banished from human society.
Good: But I am not starved, and perishing on a barren place, affording no sustenance.
Evil: I have no clothes to cover me.
Good: But I am in a hot climate, where, if I had clothes, I could hardly wear them.
Evil: I am without any defence, or means to resist any violence of man or beast.
Good: But I am cast on an island where I see no wild beasts to hurt me, as I saw on the coast of Africa; and what if I had been shipwrecked there?
Evil: I have no soul to speak to or relieve me.
Good: But God wonderfully sent the ship in near enough to the shore, that I have got out as many necessary things as will either supply my wants or enable me to supply myself, even as long as I live.
Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
Greetings from Belgium
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