While I was a little girl I used to go to my aunts place in Pune for summer, we used to have a great time there, going to those beautiful hill stations, the mesmerizing beauty of the setting sun. It was mine and my sister's favorite place to hang out. After one long day of barbecue and bathing in the warm basking sun, me and my sister went to sleep in the massive room next to terrace. I kept the night lamp on so that I could read the novel I had bought along.
While I had proceeded by just four pages of the latest Nancy Drew flick, my sister shrieked, making me throw the book three feet in the air, jumping on to my feet and shouting "what the hell is wrong with you goddammit?! Cant you just let me sleep in peace?" She just kept her eyes on the ceiling, so I looked up as well just to find a moth at the corner of the ceiling. I told her to go back to bed but she refused to shut her eyes, exasperated I called to my aunt who came running into my room, I told her how silly my 5 year old sister was acting and asked her to take her away so I could continue reading, instead my aunt decided to tell us a story I wasn't likely to forget for a very long time..
She told us that once, long long time ago the world had fallen apart, the sky broke warning, the angels were upset and they were crying which fell down on earth in the form of rain. This upset all the people on earth, specially the children and seeing this the butterflies were really upset, so to cheer them all up they decided to give a little bit of their color so that they could make a rainbow and please everyone, from heaven to earth. They all gave their color but the rainbow wasn't bright enough, they needed more colors.
They went to the peacocks, kingfishers, colorful fishes, animals, anyone.. everyone but they were all too self centered, too selfish to give away their colors .. even a little bit of it so all the butterflies gave away all their colors to make the beautiful rainbow, all of them except for brown, cuz somehow brown dint seem to fit in.
The angels and people were ecstatic, but the butterflies were now left with one color, brown, we now know them as moths, the new ones though still have their colors and they too give their colors to form rainbows, to keep us happy :)
Since, my sister hasn't been afraid of moths. And in a way, neither have I.
2 comments:
wow!.. good one! now i know how rainbows came;-)... theres another story abt these colors... you may like them too...!
~ it was the final day, god had created all the creatures, what ever we see today!
but only one thing he hasn’t done yet, he created the shapes and forms of all creatures,
what is missing, to color them! so, he asked all the creatures to be in a queue,so he could paint them one by one. he brought big color buckets and brushes to color all the beings! and he said, 'you can ask any color you want!'
all objects, animals, birds, flowers, insects everything went rushing into the queue.
they all want to be colored first and be more colorful first than others.. sun, moon, earth, water, night, lotus, stones, pigeon, elephant, everything is in queue!
butterfly also came in queue; since its being tiny, all other big / wild creatures kept sending the butterfly just behind them... like this butterfly ended up being the last person in the queue...
god started coloring every one; sun asked for the brightest color of all, so it become the most bright full.. and night asked for the darkest of all, so it become the darker one; and snow asked for white, and elephant for black, lotus for pink, grass for green, and water wanted to be colors of all, so he made water to be colorless, so it can become color of all; parrot wanted light green for body and only nose to be red, zebra wanted stripes of black and white, like this it went for long time..
all the big buckets of colors going empty one by one! all the creatures went happy with brush strokes of color.. god colored all the creatures....what ever they liked....he was tireless and kept coloring everything,
finally, the last person in the queue came in front of god..
that is 'butterfly’… god asked 'what color do you want?'
butterfly said, ‘god! you color me as per your wish’,
god smiled and looked at the paint buckets, all of them empty...
there is no paints left out in the buckets... god didn't know what to do..
so he kept the brush down, took the butterfly in hand and
touched the wings and painted them by his fingers...
wow! the butterfly has become the most beautiful than any other creatures...!
all other creatures looked back at butterfly, saw… how happily the butterfly is flying!
(that’s the reason even if we touch butterflies, the colors comes from them! ~)
may be thats why butterflies again gave away their colors for rainbow!! to please heaven to earth~
both were nice
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