There once was a baby bean named Shelley she always got into trouble and she always came home smelling like vomit flavoured jelly bean.one day she came home feeling like a jelly bean not a baby bean her mummy said why don't you feel like a baby bean and Shelley shouted I'm in day care not bean care!!!!!!😁 well my sweetie bean I'm sure you think that but you've got years ahead of you before you finish brainy bean school my darling but that doesn't mean that you can't keep using your bean brain it's wonderful how creative you are being "thanks mummy I really appreciate it" now my dear go and have some after noon tea I've made your favourite jelly cookies with a slight of sprinkle toppings.
MUM CAN I PLEASE GO AND SEE HOW SMARTY BEAN IS GOING PLEASE!!!! Shelley bean I'm not sure it's a good idea to go out and see your pony at this hour it's 7:30pm we can do it tomorrow sweetie ok you have the whole weekend to see how smarty bean I'm sure he misses you too but he knows your always going to see him.8:40pm Shelley bean it's bed time I will be expecting you up in your bed in 5mins then I will read your favourite book "groggy beans go bop" YAY!! Now Shelley I know you want to stay up until 10:00pm but mummy has to go out to a meeting for the burpengary horse show at McDonald's ok mummy so Shelley bean I want you to stay in bed ok yes mummy ok let's start the groggy beans go bop story.
Once upon a time, there was a frog in a well. Where the well was located didn't really matter to the frog, because, for the frog that well was the world. It had no idea that there is a world beyond the well. But then the frog was happy; oblivious of the external world.
Can we say that this frog is a fool who never really tried to come out of the well to see the beautiful world outside? Why would it try when it had no clue that there was something beyond that well? There was water all the time in the well. May be, if the well dried up, then there was a chance that it might try to climb up and see if it can find water elsewhere. There was no water scarcity and there was no food scarcity too. It lived happily; until that day when it was forced to come out of the well.
This frog was born and brought up in the very same well where generations of its ancestors lived and died; happily.
It had many friends to play with when it was a child. It played many games with other frog-kids in the neighborhood. When it was hungry, it returned to the home and the mother-frog always had something for her kids to eat.
But there came a time when it was no more a kid. It entered the adolescence and eventually fell in love and married another frog. As we know things happened between them and then they became parents of five beautiful frogs. I know what you are thinking about. How can frogs be beautiful? Beauty is relative. Beauty is beauty because we see something else as ugly.
Coming back to our frog, it was quite happy in the well. Now the sole purpose was to make sure its kids were happy and its partner was happy. It used to roam around the well and almost knew everyone else there. There were snakes too. But where else it could go? Die naturally or die in a snake's stomach. That's what happened to every frog in that well. Either naturally or as a snake's supper, they died in that well for sure.
But the frog was happy.
There was nothing to worry about. There was everything that is needed for a frog to be born, live, and die; happily. Food, freedom, and pleasure, and a place of their own.
And one day this happened which changed its life forever. It was happily sleeping in the well when a huge flood from the neighboring river swept across all the fields and then filled the well with flood water. The flood was so huge that many houses were swept away. This well was no exception and the flood water filled it in almost no time.
For the first time in the frog's life, it came out of the well. Till the flood receded in a couple of days, it clung to a tree and saved its life. Survival is the primitive instinct and every animal has mastered that art through the millions of years of evolution.
When the flood receded, it jumped down from the tree and tried to catch something to eat as it hadn't eaten for many days. But then, it suddenly realized it had lost its family. It went on searching endlessly for many days and then in the process, it made new friends and forgot its old family. Now it has a new family, but then it isn't a happy family as it was in that old well.
It realized things are not so easy outside the well. There are even bigger dangers than snakes. It saw some of its friends bodies on the roads trashed by motor vehicles. But then it had to live.
There was no easy food in the city with concrete roads and underground drainage systems.
One day this frog meets another frog while searching for food. The another frog was very happy and looked to enjoy life without any concern for finding food. It asks that another frog to know where that frog was finding food. Then that another frog tells the secret and asks not to share it with others.
The secret was that the another frog was doing a job in a nearby laboratory. The owner promised the frog with very good food and in return it had to do few favors to the scientists. They were trying to understand the functionality of the brain and they wanted to train frogs to do certain things.
Our frog was so excited at hearing this and told the other frog that it likes to join the job. Then with the help of this new friend, it finds the job.
At first, the job seemed to be so easy. It had to reach the lab in the morning and do whatever the scientists try to tell the frog. It was so excited and liked the varieties of food it was served with. Now that the difficulties of finding food were taken care of, it was enjoying the life very well.
It started to think that life is so beautiful outside the well. It thought that all the frogs in the well are fools and never try to come out of the well. It regretted why it had never tried to come out of the well before to enjoy the world beyond the well. If only it had tried, it could have been eating good food.
It liked the job and it liked the food. But for not for a very long time, though. There were few things which it did not like to do. But the scientists were forcing the frog to do. And the laboratory food which was so tasty few months ago, no more tastes as good as it tasted initially. The same food on everyday was also boring. Then many things added to the frustration and sometimes the other frogs were given better food because they were doing better at the job. And there were frog politics too. Few frogs were getting good food even thought they weren't working as hard as our frog.
And they lived happily ever after.
