I’ve always been a kid who was always upto some mischief or the other , never could sit in one place and loved mocking people when they try to teach me a lesson , but I always bent the knee whenever I was being told a story or overhearing some stories .
I used to make these weird faces when someone tells me to do something that I don’t like , so one day my aunt made my restless ass sit in one place and began narrating a story ,
“There once was a very handsome fish , very playful , loving and naughty . He was very good at his studies and was good among the girl fish as well but he had this habit of disrespecting his elders by making funny faces and mocking them , so one day God thought of teaching him lesson and permanently disfigured his face for being so disobedient. ”
This story was followed by “Baba , if you don’t obey your elders , then God will punish you too. ” And of course I believed the story , I was stupid and gullible back then , not anymore. But although this wasn’t the very first story told to me , I remember this story because when I think of it , I recollect bits and pieces of my childhood and how amusingly stories were cooked up just to teach us some morals .
So whenever my aunt came over or we went to hers , my sister and I would run and grab our stools and miniature rocking chairs to listen to some stories . Sometimes she would tell us she didn’t have any stories and we’d be really disappointed and to make it up to us , she would cook up stories so spontaneously we used to be hooked and got us thinking and reflecting like some young intellects .
- Nikhil Pires
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