Telling Stories Around The World

Tea For Happiness (Tale from England)

Dodinsky said ' The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go'. This old tale will tell us that happiness is there all the time. We only have to make a decision and pick it up.

It said that a long time ago there was a maid named Rosemary who lived in a little village in England and she was very well-known because she gave tea parties in her house.

One day, she prepared the invitation cards and distributed them all over the town. Once she finished, she went to her house and got down to working. She made cakes, cheese scones, cupcakes and tea of many flavors. Then she started decorating the living room with soft cushions and curtains. She set fine tablecloths and then she put the cups on the table.

However, the afternoon went on by and nobody had knocked the door. She got worried and decided to have a look through the window glass and in that moment, she realized that the people had sad and tired faces. Some of them were crying while they were walking in the streets.

Rosemary stepped out of her house and visited the mayor to ask him what was happening.

When she arrived, she was welcomed by Mayor Wilson and she asked him.

– Mr. Wilson, What has happened to the people? Why are they sad? -

– Rosemary, we are going through a crisis. It seems that the sad heart disease broke out again and it spread all over the village – Mr. Wilson said.

Rosemary was indignant, she was not used to see people sad with aching hearts so she told Mayor Wilson not to get worried because she swore that she would find the cure.

The young English lady said goodbye and went straight to her house to create the best tea that the world had ever tasted. A tea powerful enough to bring happiness back again.

In her kitchen, she spent the time reading recipes and trying different kinds of tea but she had not found the solution yet. Suddenly, she remembered a simple recipe that she had kept and decided to try it. That tea would definitely work.

On the day after, she decorated the living room again and put a little board on the sidewalk of her house which said:

¡¡COME IN AND TASTE THE MOST POWERFUL TEA OF THE WOLRD!!

THE TEA FOR HAPPINESS

The town villagers started paying attention to that advert and slowly, they entered the house. As the guests were coming in, they were served with snacks and delicious hot cups of tea

When all the people in there began to take little sips, their sad faces started turning into smiles full of joy. The atmosphere became cheerful, everybody chatted, made jokes and laughed. Happiness had made room for itself in their hearts again.

Among the crowd, Mr. Wilson appeared and told the heroine

- Rosemary, you succeeded in destroying the disease. Your tea is really strong. Tell me. What was the secret? –

Rosemary replied.

- Mr. Wilson, there is no secret at all. There is no recipe for happiness. I have only made a tea of herbs mixed with a little sugar and this made the people believe that it was tea for happiness-