The Small Horse

             One day, a small horse went out to hang around. There in a small hill appeared a glimmering rainbow. His curiosity provoked him to go there.  As he came closer he saw offspring of different animals playing together. The cub addressed the foal: “come closer friend; let us hear from you." The foal hesitated and asked the lion: “What are you doing?".  The baby lion answered: “We are discussing our parents’ qualities”. The horse hesitated. When they ask him about his father's quality, He said: my father is full of good qualities. He is fast, brave, beautiful, and calm; and most of all is that he is humble and not arrogant.”
"Objection": said the animals at once.
"You selfish little horse, we all have parents having the same qualities.’
"You are right; we all have many things in common. But the horse is a bit special"
The lion replied:" what makes you so?

          The foal went on saying: “Men are taking advantage of us. They say the horse is beautiful and they use us in beauty contest, I said brave since they use us in wars, I said that we are fast since we are used in course contests. I said I am humble since I accept all the things men ascribed to me.”
The cub intervened and asked all the animals to ask their parents about the qualities that distinguish them from others. However, the piglet rejected the idea of the fox. He said that if they keep searching for the differences they may fight or fall apart. It would be better if they look for similarities. The crowd welcomed the idea. The next meeting the animals discovered they have many things in common. Eventually, they united and play more games.

Cub: baby of fox
Piglet: baby of the hedgehog
Foal: small horse.
Lion baby= cub

The moral: There are things that make some unique. However, we are all human beings and have many common points. We need to get rid of biased ideas and selfish doctrines. We need to accept others as they are so that we can live a better life.

By Unes Khartit.