Story
Characters :-
- Gopu- The hardworking ant.
- Tomu- The lazy ant.
This story is about two ants. One named Gopu and the other named Tomu. Gopu was a very hardworking ant whereas Tomu was a very lazy ant. One day Tomu and Gopu went for a walk together. Gopu walked very fast whereas Tomu walked very slow. After walking for several miles through the forest, they both felt very hungry, and they started searching for food. An hour passed by but they did not get any food there so they continued their walk. After half an hour, they reached the mid of the forest. There was a big piece of cake fallen in the ground. “Wow!!! such a big piece of cake!!! let’s take it with us to our home, the winters are approaching, so this will help us to survive this winters” said Gopu. But as Tomu was very lazy, he said “No no this is very heavy and I don’t want to lift it.”. After arguing for half an hour they suddenly saw a marriage party going on near the place where they were arguing. “Hey Gopu! lets go to the marriage party and have food there, there the waiters will serve us food and there will be a variety of food also” said Tomu. But Gopu was very smart he thought that if they have food at the marriage party, then they would be able to eat happily and nicely that day but they would suffer in the coming winters. Gopu explained this to Tomu also, but Tomu did not agree with him and went to the marriage party. Tomu enjoyed a very tasty meal that day and the waiters also served him sufficiently. Whereas Gopu carried the big piece of cake all by himself. Gopu worked hard the whole day whereas Tomu enjoyed the food in the party and went back home and got to the bed to take a nap. After carrying the cake for two hours Gopu reached home and had a little bit of cake. Days passed by and the winters arrived. Tomu now realised that he had nothing to eat. He suffered a lot. One day he was passing by Gopus house and he saw that Gopu and his family was enjoying by having the big piece of cake that Gopu brought. Now he realised that, he made a very big mistake by not agreeing to Gopu and by going to the marriage party that day.
Moral of the story: We should learn to be visionary in life.
A short story by- Shri Arnit Bordoloi.
Class – VIII
Faculty High School
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