Coach and Squirrel

Squirrel lived in aviary,
Every day she was very busy,
She was spinning her wheel
And she was literally exhausted.

Suddenly some Coach came
And began to laugh at Squirrel:
"Why are you spinning this wheel,
You are still in aviary,
And real world is outside."




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"I do not know what it is, -
Squirrel answered and thought. -
But I can not stop,
Because I don't have time to rest."

"No time to rest? You're wrong!
You're running in wheel without meaning!
Stop and look out,
Because all life is there."

Squirrel did not understand,
But then she understood,
What Coach was talking about.
She stopped, went out of aviary
And suddenly saw real paradise.

Everywhere there were flowers,
Air was fresh and clear.
Squirrel realized that she need to live in such way,
To make every day extraordinary.

Coach praised Squirrel for his courage,
And for the fact that she went out of comfort zone
And rose to new level of awareness of reality.
For this, Coach gave Squirrel new aviary,
Smaller than the old one, but much more beautiful.




The original text was written by me in Russian. I haven't studied English systematically, so translation may not be ideal. The main work was done by Google Translate, I just corrected obvious absurdities, where I noticed them and where I did not confuse them with brilliant insights.