The Beginning: A Jungle, A Bird
There was a jungle. In that jungle, you know, there lived a bird. And man, that bird... uff... she was just so, so lovely. Really. She was really, really compassionate. She used to love everyone. She had good relations with, like, every single bird in the whole jungle. She never, ever gave anyone a chance to complain. Not at all.
Everyone in the whole jungle liked that bird, because she loved everyone from her heart too. She was always, always ready to help just anyone. She never spoke bad about anyone, not even once. She used to tell all the birds that look, we all have to live together, love each other, and protect ourselves from enemies.If we respect each other, if we, like, care for each other, if we help each other, then together we can face any enemy. Any enemy at all.
The Danger: The Attack of the Crows
Days just passed like this. The whole atmosphere of the jungle, it just kept shining with love, it stayed bright. Then after some days, we found out that some crows had, like, taken over the neighboring jungle. Now those crows were really, really big ones. And what did they do... I mean, whenever any sparrow or any bird would try to go out of the jungle, they would just harass them. For no reason. Sometimes they’d hit them with a pebble, sometimes they’d just wound them with their beaks, you know, the poor things. Those sparrows and birds were very gentle souls. They would just silently bear it and come back home, and wouldn’t even tell anyone.
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