It's sleep time and just like every night my daughter asks me for her daily dose of bedtime story. I pick up the book "Bedtime Stories" and start reading the story "The young crab and it's mother". Soon after I finish the story, she comes up with a request to read another story. And the reason she suggests is " This story is for Amma". I ask her if she'll sleep after this story, to which she replies "yes". This time the story is "The Fisherman and the little fish". The story ends with the man catching a small fish after a long wait inspite of the fish's request to catch it once its big. The moral of the story says "It's better to have something, even if it is small, than to have nothing at all". As I end the story reading the moral she starts crying saying "what will the little fish do now?" ... I sensed her concern for the little one and elaborated the story saying "he'll take the fish home and drop it in a small pot- shaped glass bottle. The little fish will happily swim in the water all day long. I see her smiling sweetly hearing that. I want to expand her smile a bit more and says "And then the next day, the man will fetch a few guppies and drop them in the fish tank so that the little fish will get friends and will live happily ever after." My little one was very very happy to hear that and was seen with heavy eyes but a wide smile. I kissed her tight with a goodnight kiss and she dozed off to sleep peacefully.
