K~'s Stories

K~ has a very special favourite past time - Making Stories.

She expects me to provide the story characters which she expands further into an interesting plot and at times, supports it with her amateurish pencil and crayon sketches too. Obviously, she does not write the story but narrates it to herself very softly before finally holding the sketch in her tiny hands, saying her story aloud to me. This game is a great life saving exercise, especially when I am trying to concentrate on a task and do not want to be nagged by her, every now and then. So, all I have to do is, give her 3-4 names and she would start spinning a story out of it, meaningfully engaged for the next 15-20 minutes.

Good Riddance!

On a better note, I would like to state a few observations based on this interaction with her.

1. K~ is self-obsessed and keeps mentioning about herself in each story.

2. K~ weaves very happy ending stories and the story plot patterns are very typical. One of the characters face a huge difficulty, which gets solved with the help of other characters and all is well in the end! It proves that we are all born with an optimistic approach and a positive attitude which gets influenced otherwise with growing age and negative worldly experiences.

3. All stories begin and end with the same lines, "Once upon a time....." and "And they lived happily ever after. The End." respectively.

Archiving a few of her stories below trying to quote her words as much as I can recall:

Bumble Bee, Butterfly and The Ladybug

Once upon a time, there lived three best friends in a beautiful green garden at E6/3, PLF Extensive Floors. The garden belonged to a beautiful girl called K~, who was very kind and lovely.The bumble bee and butterfly would buzz around flowers, drinking nectar from them.

One day, the bumble bee and the butterfly saw that the ladybug was crying. They stopped immediately and asked her "Why are you crying, dear ladybug?" The ladybug said,"I am crying because I cannot fly like both of you. I am useless. The butterfly is so beautiful and the bee gives nectar. But, I don't look nice and do not have nectar to make honey. And, when both of you are gone during the day, I miss you both, sitting all by myself."

The Butterfly and Bumble Bee felt very bad for their friend and decided to help him. They brought a long green leaf and asked the Ladybug to sit on it. Then, the Butterfly and Bumble Bee held it tightly at the corners and started flying taking the Ladybug along with them. The Ladybug was very happy to be with her friends all the time.

And, they all lived happily ever after. The End!

The Caterpillar and Kind K~

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful girl named K~. One day, K~ was playing in her garden and watering the plants. Suddenly, she heard someone cry. She started looking for him. No sooner than she did, she could feel a wriggle at her toes. Actually, a small Caterpillar was weeping hard.

She asked the Caterpillar,"Why are you crying?". The Caterpillar said,"I look so ugly. Also, Lalu, the gardener does not let me be. He waters the plants so hard that I keep falling from the leaves I am eating. I cannot even spin my cocoon in peace."

K~ replied,"Don't worry, Caterpillar. You will very soon turn into a beautiful Butterfly. I will scold Lalu and ask him to water all the plants nicely, so that you are not disturbed while eating and spinning your cocoon." K~ did just that.

A few days later, a beautiful butterfly came to K~ and thanked her. Wow! It was the same Caterpillar whom K~ had helped out.

And they all lived happily ever after. The End.

Lion, Elephant, Monkey and K~'s Birthday Party

Once upon a time, there was a big jungle in which lived a Lion, an Elephant and a monkey. They used to play together and have fun.

One day, it was K~'s birthday and she invited all of them to her birthday party.

The Lion, Elephant and Monkey thought very hard of a gift for K~. They kept thinking and thinking with their brains. "Aha!", said the Elephant,"Why don't we gift K~ some lovely Maroola flowers. K~ loves flowers.". But, the Elephant and Monkey did not agree. They had a fight in the end.

The day went by and they could not get any gift for K~. They were very sad and they said sorry to K~ for being so mean.

K~ said,"It is OK, friends. I am happy because you were able to make it to my birthday. That's the best gift you could have given me. Now, let us all play together and have fun."

And, they all lived happily ever after. The End!

I wish life was as simple and happy as these stories. K~, I pray that your own life story has a very happy ending too and may you get enough opportunities to help everyone around just like your imagined tales.

Always Be Happy, my little Angel!