ABSURD:: Waiting for a thirsty elephant! ::.... interesting!

[amy]

“An old woman, while returning to her village after visiting some relatives, bought some pop-corn for her grandchildren. When she was passing through a field, a cunning crow snatched the pop-corn from her and sat on a tree. The old woman got furious. She cursed the crow and demanded her pop-corn back. The crow raised his eye-brows, put a mocking smile on his face, winked his left eye and said: ’I have not snatched these pop-corns to give them back to you. It will be better for you not to waste your time here and go to your home.’

“After listening to this, the old woman got annoyed and threatened the crow that if he did not give the pop-corn back to her, she would ask the tree not to let him sit on its branches. The crow put a bureaucratic smile on his face and asked her to do whatever she could. Feeling insulted, the old woman requested the tree not to let the crow sit on its branches. The tree simply refused to do so. This refusal made the old woman angry. She said to the tree if it did not honour her request, she would ask the woodcutter to cut it. The tree did not even bother to reply and just ignored her.

“Then, the old woman went to the woodcutter and asked him to cut the tree. The woodcutter said he was not in a mood to cut the tree. She said to him that if he did not cut the tree, she would go to the village-head and request that the woodcutter be thrown out of the village. The woodcutter laughed at her and said it would be his pleasure if she did so.

“A little surprised and tired, the spirited old woman then went to the village-head (she was lucky to have been able to approach him) and repeated her request. The village-head turned down her request in his usual harsh tone, but the old woman was brave enough to threaten him as well. She said if he did not fulfil her request, she would approach his wife and ask her to sever relationships with him.
“Like every gentleman, the village-head got a bit puzzled and wiped sweat from his forehead. Then he thought about the gifts that he had just given to his wife and asked the old woman to try it out. After listening to this, she went to the village-head’s wife to request her to sever relationship with her husband. At that time, the village-head’s wife was busy in showing-off her new clothes and jewellery, which she just had received as gifts from her husband, to her friends, so she angrily declined the old woman’s request and asked her to leave.

“The old woman threatened the village-head’s wife that she would ask the rats to destroy her new clothes and jewellery, but she did not change her mind. So the old woman went to the rats, and requested them to destroy the clothes and jewellery of the village-head’s wife. Fresh from a cheese treat in the village-head’s kitchen, the rats also declined the old woman’s request. She tried to threaten the rats by saying she would ask the cats to eat them, but they did not budge from their stance as they were enjoying good relations with the cats.

“So the old woman approached the cats with her new request but, as expected, they also did not listen to her either. She threatened the cats that she would ask the dogs to kill them, but they did not change their mind. So the old woman went to the dogs and requested them to kill the cats. The dogs also turned down her request, saying they were too busy to do so. She threatened the dogs that she would ask the sticks to beat them up. The dogs got furious after listening to this and started barking at the old woman, who was left with no choice but to run away from there. Her morale was at a new low now, but the desire to teach a lesson to the dogs forced her to approach the sticks.
“As expected, the old woman did not get a positive reply from the sticks either. Next, she approached the fire and requested it to burn the sticks. The fire also refused. Then our brave old woman went to the water and asked it to put off the fire. She threatened the water that if it turned down her request, she would ask the elephant to drink it. Still, the water refused to put off the fire. Finally, the spirited old woman approached the elephant and asked it to drink the water. Hey, here is a twist in the story. Luckily, the elephant was thirsty and he agreed to drink the water.

“When the water came to know about this, it agreed to put-off the fire. When this news reached the fire, it did not waste any time in deciding to burn the sticks. When the sticks learned that the fire is coming to burn them, they rushed to beat up the dogs. When the dogs listened about this, they got ready to kill the cats. Their decision forced the cats to agree to eat the rats. When the rats felt the danger, they hurriedly moved to destroy the clothes and jewellery of the village-head’s wife.

“Feeling threatened, the wife announced that she would sever relationships with her husband. When the village-head came to know about this, he ordered that the woodcutter be thrown out of the village. When the woodcutter received this order, he picked his axe and rushed towards the tree to bring it down. When the tree saw the woodcutter coming towards it with the axe, it ordered the crow not to sit on its branches. Finally, the astonished crow had to return the pop-corns to the old woman.”

what we learn?

“The only thing that we all have to do is to find a genuinely thirsty elephant, who may reverse the fortunes of our robbed homeland. Unfortunately, whenever we try to bank on elephants, they turn out to be white ones, as is evident from our past and the present.”