The New Aesop Fabbles: The Kites and The Swan

The neigh of a horse

The amazing kite

In the olden times, the Kites (Raptors) and the Swans could sing very well. But having heard the neigh of a horse (high-pitched sound uttered by a horse), they were so enchanted with the sound. They tried to imitate it. At the end, they remembered how to neigh but forgot how to sing.

The lovely swans

Human characteristics can be interesting and funny some times, if they do not irritate you they might make you laugh. So are animals may be.

Enchanted by neigh of a horse??!! ....... The beauty is in the eye of the beholder; the enchantment is in the ear of the listener...... Sometimes, it is a little bit contradicting what we observe and what others see; how we hear and how others listen; how we perceive and how others understand over the same thing.

There are times, we don't know who we are, how we should look like, what we should say and what not, how we should think. From hairstyle to clothes to accessories to character, inside out or outside in, we are imitating someone, one way or another, particularly those we admire, like or worship. We are influencing each other, if not repelling.

Like a magnet, a person can have a repelling end with the opposite character or an attractive end with the like minded. We build these ends through medias (books, tv, movies, radio, internet), friends, neighbors, family members and teachers/mentors. We follow the trend, we sway here and there with the trend. We fall in and out of a trend. At the end, at one point, we lost ourselves in the midst of vastness of possible influences. A lot of problems might occur when we don't know who we are, what we are, where we are standing, where we are going.

LOST

GPS used in the modern age might lead us to no where sometimes, what more helping us to find ourselves. Getting to know ourselves a process about getting to understand ourselves. Finding a hairstyle that one is comfortable with, fashions that one likes, mentality that one builds on with age and experience. The ultimate stage is probably a neutral path that may take in opinions from both sides (positive and negative) but still preserve our own opinion, if we have. Loving kindness and acceptance towards ourselves and others.

With this understanding, we might have less trouble like 'why he/she doesn't like me? I'm depressed for a year', 'I'm upset for two months that you think my hair looks like infertile grass', 'I really feel like bashing him for saying that'................. We then, may be, can enjoy a lot more simple pleasure that comes into our lives daily. We might be a happier person being open but neutral; opinionated but reserved; contented, sincere and kind.