Three Bags Of Something
A fairy granted a young girl with three small bags for her kindness. Bags of different colors -- white, red and black. The fairy didn't tell the girl exactly what were inside the three bags. And by discovery, the Fairy said to the girl, in time she will learn what is inside in each bag.
The young girl lives in a barn, together with her grandparents. Both of her grandparents are farmers. The old barn still stands about five hundred feet from the field where her grandparents used to plant crops. There is a garden of flowers on one side of the field. On the other side is a swamp for ducks, quails and chicks.
Beliguering the barn, the field and the garden are tall trees, with both tame and wild animals lingering in the forest.
One afternoon, the girl was out in the garden playing alone. She plays with some birds and butterflies. She spotted some dragonflies and was more delighted seeing young, smaller dragonflies. She tried to catch them by the tail. One by one, the dragonflies flew farther away from the garden for being chased by the young girl. The girl reached the front of the forest. She was scared because the forest looks gloomy so she went back home immediately.
The next day, she went out and brought her knapsack with her. Inside her knapsack is a loaf of bread, a bottle of water and the three small bags that the fairy gave to her as gifts. She went to the forest and peeked what she can find within the woods. The weather that day was nice and clear. She can see everything around her visibly. At first, she thought that the forest is dangerous because it was dark the first time she saw it at the front.
She saw different tame animals in the forest. She only stopped walking when she saw a snake -- a young python swallowing a mother hare. There's a small hare there too and still alive, but a young defenseless one. The girl opened her knapsack, took the three small bags out and sit them on the ground. She opened the small black bag, took a black pellet and threw it towards the snake. The snake suddenly grew bigger. The girl stepped back and used another pellet, a white one from the small white bag. She threw it towards the snake and the snake disappeared. The life of the lone young hare was spared and the girl was relieved. The girl approached the lone young hare, offered a slice of bread. The young hare didn't eat it so she decided to give the hare a piece of red pellet from the small red bag. The hare ate it. Suddenly, another young hare appeared beside the first one. She gave away another red pellet for the new hare to eat. It was eaten and another young hare came out from nowhere. One more time, the girl took out ten red pellets from the bag and laid them on the ground before the three young hares. Apparently, ten more leverets appeared before her. The girl was astonished and gladdened because the lone young hare now has companions, helpers and friends as family.
The skies are getting darker. The girl left the loaf of bread for the young hares and walked back home to the barn.
That night, the girl had a dream. The Fairy was talking to her and said, "the black bag is what you can use to defend yourself whenever you are in danger. However, the black pellets inside the black bag can also aggravate anything, or even you, under any situation or condition if anger will rule over your heart. The white bag can only be used for good if you want anger, hatred, greed, envy, lust or anything bad around you to disappear and come back no more. The red bag with red pellets in it is for love. If you want to spread love to the world, show it because love is the greatest gift that you can offer to the world."
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