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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Courage / Heroism
  • Published: 12/18/2013

The Real King on Earth

By Shobha Bokadia
Born 1990, F, from Haryana, India
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The Real King on the Earth

Today morning when I woke up I saw a little creeping insect (of 1 inch) was laid down on the ground painfully. Approximately 1/3rd of its body was cut off and its body was wounded. It was cramping with pain. Then I thought what most people often think to do in this kind of situation. I thought that perhaps it can’t live with this wound and infection for a long time, and unfortunately there is no doctor for small insects. I thought that it is dying painfully so I should give it relief by an instant painless death by rubbing it with my shoe. But before doing so I tried to check its consciousness by touching it with my finger and when I touched it, it started creeping here and there. I was surprised to see its courage of efforts for survival. Then I again touched it and it again ran, maybe for saving its life from this new danger and then it hid itself in a small dig near it. It was watching me sharply to protect itself.

Then I thought for a while that this insect was already facing a major wound on its body but still it wanted to live and was struggling with a new danger/trouble but not giving up. It forgot all its pain when a new problem occurred with it. It had a lot of hopes for future, a lot of courage, confidence and zeal to deal with all new problems but to never give up.

Then I realize that we HUMAN-BEINGS are known as the king on the earth, more than these insects and the rest of species on earth. B coz we have a lot of power over them. But still most of us think that our troubles are bigger than our zeal, courage and confidence. Most of us lose our courage soon and our problems turn into tensions and tensions turns into hypertensions, resulting in many people quitting their precious life. B coz they do not have as much courage as the wounded insect has.

And then I let the insect go to live its precious life hopefully, b coz I knew that God gives help to them who do not give up hope. And I thought that maybe God would give a new body to that insect like the lizard and Octopus (lizard gets new tails for the cut once again) and I think that only those who have courage, confidence and hope against their trouble are The Real King on Earth.
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