The Brave Elephant
A lone elephant wandered the forest looking for friends. She
came across a monkey and asked, “Will you be my friend, monkey?” “You are too
big and cannot swing on trees as I do. So I cannot be your friend”, said the
monkey.
The elephant then came across a rabbit and asked him if she
could be his friend. “You are too big to fit inside my burrow. You cannot be my
friend”, replied the rabbit.
Then the elephant met a frog and asked if she could be her
friend. The frog said, “You are too big and heavy. You cannot jump like me. I am
sorry, but you cannot be my friend”.
The elephant asked a fox, and he got the same reply, that he
was too big. The next day, all the animals in the forest were running in fear.
The elephant stopped a bear and asked what was happening and was told that a
tiger has been attacking all the animals.
The elephant wanted to save the other weak animals and went
to the tiger and said “Please sir, leave my friends alone. Do not eat them”.
The tiger didn’t listen and asked the elephant to mind her own business. Seeing
no other way to solve the problem, the elephant kicked the tiger and scared it
away.
She then went back to the others and told them what
happened. On hearing how the elephant saved their lives, the animals agreed in
unison, “You are just the right size to be our friend”.
Moral
Friends come in all shapes and sizes.