Monday 8 May 2017

Aesop telling Charles Perrault's Cinderella

Intro

God assumed that Cinderella is an important story for humanity and when Charles Peraultt suddenly died while telling stories to children, God decided to bring Aesop from the past into the present so Cinderella can be created for the future generations to learn from this story.
For God past, present and future was simply one thing called time, so it was an easy thing to do.

Aesop's Cinderella

The stepmother is encouraging her daughter with gentle words in front of the family to try the shoe. The shoe is almost fitting. The mother takes some butter from the table and puts some on her daughter's foot. The shoe fits.

After trying the shoe, the mother tells her daughter that she is invited to the family table to have dinner and that she will be getting second serving from the desert this evening for the good effort.

Before trying the glass shoe, the step mother tells the step daughter that she has a choice to try the glass shoe or go to her room and think about asking for a chance to try the shoe.

The step daughter is choosing to try the shoe. It almost fits and, with a sock it could have fitted perfectly.

The step mother tells the step daughter with a smile that the step daughter has a choice now to stay for dinner and have fun with the rest of the family.

God talks to Aesop

God came by to see how Aesop was progressing. He read the unfinished story and got angry at His creation.
“I am disappointed with you Aesop” God said.
“I expected of you to write the story about Cinderella as this will be a lesson about hardship, perseverance in the face of hardships and about happy endings.”

Aesop opened his mouth, ready to explain that he did not know the context of the here and the now where Charles Perrault's just passed away before being able to create Cinderella and immortalize himself with another fairy tale that would become a classic in the future. But he did not speak. Instead he swallowed with an effort an emotion and looked down to his sandals that he was wearing in his time and space.

“That’s right”, God said. “I like that you know your place and did not speak back to me”.

Then God transported Aesop back to his own time and space and told him that he could continue to write his fables as that was what he was good at.

Before His departure Aesop asked with a quiet voice, “Did you teach me a lesson God?”

“I don know...”, God replayed and then He left.


End