The story of the Weaver-bird and the Monkey.
This story is quoted from the book "The voyage of Abdullah". Abdullah is a scholar/ teacher who moved from Malacca to Singapore during the Colony period. He was secretary to Sir Stamford Raffles when Singapore was founded in 1819. This book writes about his tourage and comments about the malay feudalistic system in the Malaya before Malaya was colonized.
It goes:
Once upon a time there was a terrible storm and heavy rain. An all the monkeys in the jungle ran to find shelter.
Now one monkey took shelter under the nest of a weaver-bird (the nest of the weaver-birds are made up of bamboo leaves knitted firmly together and is water-proof all year long) and stood there shivering in cold.
The weaver-bird, seeing the monkey, hailed him.
"Hi, monkey!" he said. "Did not God make you much bigger and stronger than I am? Why can't you make a place to live in as I have done? Then you can shelter in it fro the rain. The trouble you are in is just the result of your own laziness".
When the monkey heard the words of the weaver-bird, he became angry.
"You talk in this stuck up way", he said, "because of this fine nest of yours. What has my way of life got to do with you?" So saying, the monkey tore down the nest, rent it to pieces and threw it to the ground.
Thats the end of the story. Was not the advice of the weaver-bird good? But it wasted on the senseless monkey and it did the bird a mischief.
The moral of the story is, "Its takes a jeweller to recognise jewels"; for only the wise can appreciate its moral properly, good advices are wasted on worthless people.
In life, we often turn a deaf ear to peoples' word of advice, especially close people around us, and more often than not, we regret what we have done, no doubt the story says that good advice are wasted on worthless people, I believe however a person is lacking of worthiness, he should not be deny of good advice, if he turns a deaf ear to it, the only consolation one can get is that, one has done his part in trying to help another being.
Well..I was ploughing through this book of thick readings and read the story above and decide to pen it down.
It goes:
Once upon a time there was a terrible storm and heavy rain. An all the monkeys in the jungle ran to find shelter.
Now one monkey took shelter under the nest of a weaver-bird (the nest of the weaver-birds are made up of bamboo leaves knitted firmly together and is water-proof all year long) and stood there shivering in cold.
The weaver-bird, seeing the monkey, hailed him.
"Hi, monkey!" he said. "Did not God make you much bigger and stronger than I am? Why can't you make a place to live in as I have done? Then you can shelter in it fro the rain. The trouble you are in is just the result of your own laziness".
When the monkey heard the words of the weaver-bird, he became angry.
"You talk in this stuck up way", he said, "because of this fine nest of yours. What has my way of life got to do with you?" So saying, the monkey tore down the nest, rent it to pieces and threw it to the ground.
Thats the end of the story. Was not the advice of the weaver-bird good? But it wasted on the senseless monkey and it did the bird a mischief.
The moral of the story is, "Its takes a jeweller to recognise jewels"; for only the wise can appreciate its moral properly, good advices are wasted on worthless people.
In life, we often turn a deaf ear to peoples' word of advice, especially close people around us, and more often than not, we regret what we have done, no doubt the story says that good advice are wasted on worthless people, I believe however a person is lacking of worthiness, he should not be deny of good advice, if he turns a deaf ear to it, the only consolation one can get is that, one has done his part in trying to help another being.
Well..I was ploughing through this book of thick readings and read the story above and decide to pen it down.
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