The Seven-Tailed Rat_Motivational Story

 

The story of a girl:

 When I was four or five years old, I had to undergo several operations on my feet, often with severe pain.  To get my attention, my mother used to tell me the story of a rat with seven tails.

  I have heard this story at least 100 times and most of the time I have heard it ten times a day but still my mind was distracted by the pain.  At least for a while.  I was small and according to my little mind what happened to this rat was so unfortunate that I was exhausted by it.

  My mother begins the story, many days are mentioned and the shape of this lively mouse begins to emerge in my mind.

  This is the story my mother used to tell.

  Once upon a time there was a rat that had seven tails. The rat often asked when my mother would send me to school (her mother always smiled and said) You are still very young, when you will be three years old  I will send you to school

  The rat finally turned three years old.

  A few days after his birthday, the rat's mother gave him a school bag and a lunch box containing omelettes and pratha sandwiches.  She grabbed the rat's hand and waited for the school bus outside her house.

  When the school bus arrived, the rat began to leap with joy and its beautiful tail began to look like the tail of a rooster in the shape of a circle.  But when the rat came back home, he was looking very depressed. His mother asked what was the matter, why are you so depressed!  "I was teased by clever rats at school," he said.

  He was saying that strange looking rats have seven tails.  What a strange mouse you are.  The rat told his mother to cut off one of his tails.  His mother died with great sadness.  He said no one would bother you anymore and sent him to school the next day.

  But the rat came crying again the next day.  Amy Amy rats have teased me again at school. They were saying weird looking rats with six tails.  What a strange mouse you are.  He asked his mother to cut off his tail.  His mother died of depression.

  The rat came crying again.

  His mother asked, "What's the matter now?" He met her eyes and said that the rats had teased her at school, saying that they were strange-looking rats with five tails.

  As the series went on, the rat would come home crying and his mother would cut his tail with great sadness. One day he saw that there was only one tail left.  His mother said that now you have become like other rats, no one will touch you now.

  The rat happily shook his tail and went to school.

  But the rat still cried and came back home rubbing his nose. He said that my mother had been teased by rats.  They were saying that you have a strange looking rat. You are such a strange rat. This rat told his mother to cut off his tail.

  His mother cut his last tail while shedding tears. The rat came back home crying.  Mommy, Mommy, the rats have teased me, they were saying, little rats that have no tails, weird rats that have no tails, you stupid rats.

  I asked my mother why the rats teased her when she had a tail and she was just like them.  My mother said that the rat made such a fuss that other rats were having fun teasing her.

  This is what happens if you follow other people's opinions without thinking for yourself.  Despite hearing so much from me, my mother did not change her mind.