In our article, we offer readers the story "Staying Broken." It will be dedicated to friendship. You will also find out where this expression came from and what it means when you can bring it in a conversation so that you can brighten up your speech and look like an educated person.
The origin of the aphorism
What does the concept mean, the theme of which will be devoted to our story on the topic "Staying with a Broken Trough"?
It turns out that it came to us from the tales of the great A.S. Pushkin. To be more precise, with his "Tales of the Fisherman and the Fish" - the very one where a magical fish was able to fulfill wishes in the network of a poor grandfather. There is a preface in the tale that this grandfather lived with his grandmother very poorly, all of their property was in an old broken trough. And then the old woman, feeling the power, began to send everything to the grandfather to the fish with new and new desires, one another is more serious. And when everything seemed a little grandmother (and she already had a huge castle and became a noblewoman), she ordered to make her the most sea queen. Then the patience of the fish burst, angry, she took all this. The grandfather who returned home saw his grandmother with a broken trough. That is, because of his greed, the grandmother was left with nothing. Actually, “to stay with nothing” - this is the definition of a winged statement about a broken trough.
The story "Stay with a broken trough." Foreword
To the reader’s judgment, we offer a story on this topic. It will be useful to high school students and kindergarten teachers who are looking for a new instructive story for their wards, or mothers who want to tell their children a new bedtime story.
The story "Staying Broken" on the topic of friendship
Once upon a time there were two friends. We will call them Sasha and Dima. Sasha always shared his toys, whether it was a simple shovel in the sandbox or a new, still smelling paint, scooter on which the boy had not ridden himself yet. He spared nothing, he was giving away everything to friends, for which he often received a severe reprimand from his mother at home.
But our story “Staying Broken” is not just about the boy who shared, but about his friend. Dima always made other people's toys more beautiful than their own. Like someone else's sandwich was tastier.
Once, Sasha brought a new typewriter and began to play with her. And then Dima came running. “Give me,” he says, “to play a car with me.” The boy, of course, gave. But it is worth saying that the machine was not simple, but a fire. Yes, even with two brave firefighters and a watering can to fill the water. But now Sasha forgot firefighters and watering can at home. Dima played with a machine, he liked it so much that he didn’t let it go. “And give me the car,” he asked Sasha, “and let your mother buy another for you.” The boy thought and thought, and he says, “Take it. I like her, but friendship is more important. ”
Dima was delighted, only it was somehow boring to play with a machine without firemen. “Listen, friend, why do you need those firefighters without a car? Give them to me too! ”He began to ask a simple-minded friend. Sasha sighed, went home for the firemen and gave them to a friend. Only Sasha’s mother was not at home, only her grandmother looked at the boy in a strange way.
Continuation
Soon, the firefighters Dima got bored. He began to ask a friend to bear him. Sasha liked the watering can, but since there is no machine, then she is not needed. The boy ran after the watering can and only wanted to leave the apartment, as his grandmother grabbed his hand. “Why don’t you play it, but still run around?” - asks sternly. “Yes, he presented his car to a friend ...” Sasha says quietly. "So what?" - grandmother to him.
- And he asked for firefighters.
- Did you give?
- Yes. Well this is my friend ...
“Well, now why come running?”
“Yes, he asks me for a watering can,” Sasha says, quite embarrassed, to her grandmother.
- This is not a friend! - the grandmother suddenly speaks. - A friend will give the last, but will not take it from you. You know what happens to those who demand a lot?
And the grandmother told her grandson a fairy tale about a goldfish and a greedy grandmother. Sasha understood then that his friend was behaving badly. He went and took his typewriter. And Dima was left without a typewriter, and without firefighters, and without a friend. As they say, a broken trough.
The story "Staying Broken" is over. Remember guys, you need to value friends. And not only take, but also give.