Tuesday 5 October 2021

PAYBACK

Today my granddaughter brought a storybook to me and asked that I read it to her. It was titled, "Polly The Spoilt Princess" written by Anna Clothier and published by North Parade Publishing Ltd, UK. It was a book that came in a box of puzzles. It speaks about sharing and making friends. Princess Polly was very spoilt and never did like sharing her toys and sweets with others. Soon she found herself alone with no friends to play with. She did not have anyone to push the swing in the Palace Gardens or hold her skipping rope or ride her see-saw. None of these things are much fun on their own she soon realized. She invited all the children in the kingdom to come and play with her and eat with her. Now she had someone push the swing, hold the skipping rope and ride the see-saw. She had more toys and sweets now because all her friends shared too. She found that things were much more fun if you shared them. 

Speaking about kindness my daughter wrote the following in her blog at https://journalofafox.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-world-only-seems-to-be-getting.html

And the kindness might not even die off at your parting of ways. Instead, you might find out that the person you just helped was some rich and famous person who hunts you down to repay you. You might chance upon them again some day and they might be the one who helps you instead. They might go on to meet someone else in the same situation as they once were, and remembering your kindness, they might do for others what you did for them, others who might turn out to be your loved ones. Or nothing might happen at all, and the universe would carry on as if you had never met them in the first place.

I came across the following two short films recently that touches on what she wrote. I guess this is how we come together to repay another in each life. We can never tell.