Читать книгу A Little Wisdom for Growing Up, Second and Expanded Edition - John C. Morgan - Страница 9

It was a late, bright spring morning when the mosquito and the hummingbird found themselves in the same backyard.

The mosquito was quite taken by how fast the wings of the hummingbird fluttered.

“Tell me, friend,” said the mosquito, “how do you manage to fly and yet stand still at the same time?”

“I don’t think about it else I would drop to the ground,” responded the hummingbird. “That’s just the way it is,” he said as he returned to the fire bush flower on the clinging vine.

“But don’t you ever consider how you manage to do this?” asked the mosquito.

“Look, if I had to count how many times my wings go back and forth, I would soon grow weary and fall down and be swallowed by a cat,” said the hummingbird, getting a little angry.

“But, still, don’t you ever wonder how you do it?” the mosquito asked again.

This time the hummingbird flew away quickly after telling the mosquito that he couldn’t stand any more questions.

The mosquito buzzed and laughed. “Now I have fulfilled my purpose—being irritating.”

Moral: Everyone has some purpose, even if only to irritate others.