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The Last Lizard : A Short Story by IkembaCMD(m): 10:14pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
The Last Lizard; A short story (inspired by a true life encounter, painstaking observation and Eddie Iroh’s writings) Three domestic agama lizards were wrangling on a high fence. It was a fight in the actual sense – They were fighting over a piece of debris. The debris was an hackneyed remnant of a discarded chocolate bar meddled with sand and filth. The debris was positioned in the gnashing jaws of the three opponents, Each wanting the whole bounty or perhaps a considerable chunk off the chocolate litter. In a split time, one of the three lizard surrendered, jumped off the fence and hurdled away into the bush. The battle was left to two lizards. It was intense and survival-of-the-fittest oriented. They raced to and from the fence holes, jostling with claws and scales. It seems the debris was worth all the stress. And then, with no notice, there was a sudden drop from the high fence, it was one of the contesting lizards. The battle was over and the winning lizard gnawed the debris deep into his victorious jaws and crawled gently… out of sight. Left alone on the crusty ground, the suddenly- dropped lizard looked left and right, it gazed around its premise most probably for an encouraging, perhaps a motivating sight. He saw none… none at all. Then this lizard, the Last lizard did the remarkable. It nodded its head upwards and downwards and then moved on. It moved on;… Moral of the story ; “In life, we all have to be like the Third lizard, the Last lizard: It looked left and right, looked far and wide for support and solace but saw none; yet still, motivated and braced up himself despite the untimely and unwarranted defeat. This being done, by nodding his head up and down and then moving on for the better, for the best”… Be self-motivating. The nodding of a thing is usual for lizards as we all know; however it was just used as an illustration in bringing out a lesson to us all. We must never be daunted by our defeats, we must instead nod our heads in goodwill and move forwards for the best. http://glasshouseorbit..in/2015/12/the-last-lizard-short-story.html?m=1 By ; IKEMBA_ONE …Novo Ordo Stratum Progressiva… 1 Like |
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