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| Granny knows best |
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The World's things don't end, only us humans shall perish.
This is what my paternal gran loved saying to me. It didn't make sense to me what she meant because we stayed in a village and that tar road sure did reach its end as it was in between gravel roads. She loved speaking in parables that most of the time she would be talking and I would just want her to finish so she could gimme peanuts.
She also liked telling me a tale of a man. A very good loving man who would sell his soul for the best of humanity. One day on his way home, he found a snake that had been run over by a car and left to its fate. The man realised that if only he could nurse the poor serpent it can get back to normal and he will let it off and release it in the field for it to get back to it's normal serpentry activities. He fed the snake and left some rags for it to keep warm. Occasionally he would pet it. One day as he was petting the snake, it bit him. He had to be rushed to hospital but begged for his family not to harm the snake in any way. Alarmed they asked why not, he replied that it was the snake's nature to bite when it felt cornered and smothered just like it was the man's nature to care for all things natural. That, neither the man nor the snake had done wrong in doing what their nature required of them.
The above are what I live by with the later being what gets me over a lot of situations.
What are the things the elders taught you that you live by?
by Queen Troll
