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A Goat Story


It was a beautiful day in the forest. A goat gave birth to her child. She quickly washed her child in her mouth. She was hungry. So she went ahead to arrange food. She observed her child is following her from behind. She was amazed. Then she kept moving forward searching for food. A lake blocked the road. The water current was high. She waited for a while until her child joined. Then she started crossing the river 

The child was not sure whether she can cross it or not. Finally she could not hold the temptation & landed in the river. Her mother was a fierce animal. The water current was nothing for her. So she kept moving forward. But her child was timid. Her steps were shivering in cold. Then she started to swim but couldn't. Slowly water swept her farther from her mother. While she is struggling, she started to scream for help from her mother. But her voice was hardly audible in the roaring water. 

After mother goat crossed the lake, she arrived on the land & looked back to see her child. There was none. The lone struggle of a newborn child was just not enough. The mother was devastated. She fall flat on ground with despair. 

[I wish she learnt a lesson from that tragic incident. Had she not left her child alone, it would have been different. But did she learn it ? Or, is it that they just don't have the power to imagine the result of their actions & to learn from them ? ]

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