Burden or Wings.

Once upon a time a pupil asked his teacher “How can I learn not to hold grievance against people?” And his teacher answered “Always carry a backpack and every time, when you hold a grievance against someone, put a stone in it”. Soon the backpack was full and sharp stones constantly cut pupil’s back. When he came back to the teacher, he said that it was impossible to move further with such heavy load. Then the teacher answered “Leave off this heavy backpack and go! Now you will see that keeping grievance in soul is an unnecessary burden, which makes our life more difficult.”

When I heard this parable, I imagined that our life is a kind of quest. Those who first achieve the aim and solve a riddle, have more chances to win. It will be easier to cover the distance, solve the task and get the prize, if our backpack contains everything necessary, what will help us to stay alive in the forest, and nothing extra. And if our backpack contains unnecessary burden of grievance, this will put us back, like those stones, and hamper our life!

Today we speak with children how much it is dangerous to keep grievance and that it is bad to tell lies. Because lie is like swamp, the father you sink, the more difficult it is to escape.

We also decided that to get out of the forest, we need to move, but not to be lazy, because as the Finnish saying goes, moss does not grow on the rolling stone. It can be said that the road will rise to meet the one who walks it.

It is very gracefully to cultivate kindness. This inspires us and makes our life easier.

Children were given gifts, and their happy faces charged us with positive emotions. This really inspires!