The Two Frogs: This story is quite entertaining. The two frogs each want to go where the other is. They meet half-way and decide that they are going to look to see if it is worth it to keep moving. They help each other stand up and they look to see what looks exactly like their hometown. The problem is that their eyes are placed so that they are looking behind them and are actually looking at their home towns. They end up with a completely wrong view of what the other place is and spend the rest of their lives thinking that the two places are exactly the same. Its a shame that they did not continue on to the new place and realize it is completely different.
The Stonecutter: This story is about how if you live your life according to what materials you have, then you will never be satisfied. The stonecutter wished to be rich, but that soon became too boring for him. He wished to be a prince, but that too did not keep him satisfied. This goes on until he realizes that he likes it much better being a person and so he is changed back into a man. This story goes with the saying that the grass is always greener on the other side. There will always be someone else who has it better and so you need to learn to be satisfied with what you have. I like this story for the moral in it.
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| Mountains photo take by Jamie O'Shaughnessy. Wikimedia Commons |
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