Theme: Respect

Bunnies who didn't know how to respect

There was once a rabbit named Serapio. He lived on the top of a mountain with his granddaughters Serafina and Sephora.

Serapio was a good rabbit and very respectful with all mountain animals and, for that they all appreciated him very much. But his granddaughters were different: they didn't know what respect for others was. Serapio always apologized for what they did. Every time they went out for a walk, Serafina would scoff: “Look, how ugly that sheep is and look at the bull's nose, how weird”. “Yes, look how ugly they are”, answered Sephora in front of the other little animals. And so, they walked and made fun of others, every day.

One day, the grandfather, tired of the bad behavior of his granddaughters (who, no matter how much he taught, they didn't correct themselves), thought of something to make them understand and said to them: "Let's play a game where each of you will have a notebook". In the notebook they should write the word 'apology' every time they disrespected someone. Whoever wrote that word the least would win the game.

"Alright grandpa, let's play", they replied at the same time. When Sephora was disrespectful at someone, Serafina would remind her of the game, and she had to write in her notebook the word 'apology' (because then Sephora would have more words and would lose the game). In the same way, Sephora reminded Serafina when she was disrespectful at someone. The days passed and, already tired of writing, the two started to talk: “It wouldn't be better if we didn't disrespect others, so we wouldn't have to write so many apologies”.

The moment came at which Serapio had to congratulate them both because they no longer had complaints from the neighbors. So, he asked the bunnies to erase everything they had written little by little until their notebooks were as before. The bunnies were very sad because they saw that it was impossible for the notebook pages to be as they were before. So, they told this to their grandfather, and he said to them: “The same is true for a person's heart when we are disrespectful to them. It is marked, and, as much as we apologize, the marks are not completely erased. Therefore, it is good that you remember that we must respect others, just as we would like them to respect us”.

Translation:
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