Stories are not just for kids, they are for everyone of us! Stories keep us motivated and keep our hopes afloat. All of us have our own stories, but unfortunately our society has reached a stage where we have forgotten to spend time together as a community, share our stories with each other, and inspire. We rather would spend all our day with our mobiles and laptops in the virtual world. Today’s Monday Truclusions is dedicate to stories!
Just remember the time when we were kids and we looked forward to bed time when our granny or any elder told us a story. How we wish those times returned for good, don’t we?
Vikram Sridhar – Sticking To Storytelling, The Traditional Way!
Story telling is such a beautiful art, but now a days is so forgotten. Yesterday I met this wonderful artist who believes in reviving this art of captivating people with stories. Today I want to tell you about Vikram Sridhar, a mechanical engineer turned story teller and share a few stories he told us. He believes though the country is moving towards being digital, certain forms of art like story telling are best suited for the traditional ways.
Also being a graduate from premier B-schools and working at an MNC, he still finds time to be a wildlife enthusiast and a theatre artist. He brings animals as the main characters of the story and also tries to brings awareness about things like environment, diversity and many other.
The Baby Monkey & The Butterfly
There lived a monkey couple and their young one. One day the baby monkey said that it was bored of staying at home and wanted to roam around the forest. The mother monkey agreed to take her child out on a day trip, but asked him to carefully follow her and not get lost or lose sight of her.
The mother son duo went on their merry way around singing along. Suddenly the mother noticed her child wasn’t with her. She froze at the thought of her dear baby being lost. She frantically started looking for him everywhere they went but couldn’t find him. On the other hand the baby monkey freaked out when he didn’t find his mother by his side.
He finally sat on one tree and began crying loudly, when a kingfisher came and asked him why he was crying. The little monkey said he had lost his mommy and was scared. He cried so loudly that the bird freaked out and flew away.
Then there came a hippopotamus who asked the same question. But didn’t have the patience to console him and he walked away. Similarly other animals came and left which didn’t help. Then came along a little beautiful butterfly and asked the baby monkey why he was crying!
Then the butterfly asked the first of right questions “Where does your mother live?”, the reply came, “On trees!”. Then the butterfly pointed to a snake rolled up on a tree. The monkey cried, “It’s a snake, my mommy stands on two legs!” Then the butterfly went along to a different tree and showed him a woodpecker, and said “Look there, that is living on a tree standing on its legs, could that be your mommy?”
The baby cried again “My mommy eats bananas, not insects like that creature and she looks exactly like me!” The butterfly was taken aback to learn that the monkey’s mother looks exactly like him. For what she had known all her life was that mother and child don’t look alike. The monkey then realised his mistake of not conveying the most important thing that he looked like his mother!
That is when both of them realised the worth of diversity, and they went looking again, and found the mother monkey. The family of monkeys thanked the butterfly and they all lived happily ever after.
The point Vikram was trying to make to everyone present there was that the world is a beautiful place where all of us, who are different from each other, bring different flavours to the place we call home.
Food For Thought
Imagine a world where all of us were same and not different. Would the world feel the same way as it does now? Think about it!
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