The Little Green Ball

Title in Portugues: "A Bolinha Verde" Maputo / Editor coopimagem/ no.registo 01935/RLINLD/ 2001 � 24pg.

One day the Nothing waked up and was sad to be alone in the dark. So the Nothing made fire balls and throws them in all directions around…

The Nothing was happy to see the fire balls shining illuminating the emptiness!

 

The story that I’m going to tell you is of a little ball that got tired of shining and fades off…

- What shall I do? – Thought the little ball… and started to make some experiences.

Made rain and played with water. Then it invented life and dressed up in green. It was lovely!

The other balls looked at it marveling!

The little ball, happy, invented the seed. The seed has the secret of life and can reproduce itself alone! And then it started to invent other forms of life. There were different types of plants and animals.

The little Green Ball improved everything it created with lots of love.

 

One day the green little ball thought: - I have already millions of years, if one day I become wearied off who will look after everything I have created and will invent new beautiful things?

And it had and idea: to create a being that would have the same powers of creating and love!

The little ball worked for many years and creates a specie called PEOPLE.

Admiring its art gave them all the paradise it has invented before.

Then the little Green Ball went to rest.

 

The hours are counted in centuries for balls… therefore the green ball doesn’t know what happened… But a mango tree told me and a cockcrow confirm it about what had happened as the green ball was sleeping…

As the other balls loved the Green little Ball they wanted to help it. There for the Sun shined just for it and the Moon made itself as a mirror. The People, fascinated with their brightness, thought that the other balls were gods and started to worship them. They wanted to get to those other balls…

To get to those gods the People started to destroy the little green ball and everything it had created: destroying forests, polluting the water, poisoning the plants and animals and not even the air that they needed to bread they respected.

The People where looking for paradises in the other balls as they were destroying the paradise that was given to them with so much love.

 

The little Green Ball didn’t understand: It had created impossible things, it had given life to fire and the People now wanted to destroy everything that it had created…

The other balls were asking one another: - Does the little Green Ball deserve to be destroyed? – And they feel they should destroy the People and save the little Green Ball.

 

Now I ask you: - How this story is going to end?

1. Will the People destroy the little Green Ball?

2. Or will the other ball destroy the People to save the little Green Ball?

3. Or may be the People will change and start to take care of the little Green Ball and save themselves and all those things that were offer to them so they could have a paradise?

 

And it is you that have to continue this story!

- What do you think is going to happen?

I think that…

Reviews

[Michael X]

angi, this is a brilliant story of creation, one can see your metaphorical descriptiveness in full, vivid
color, as well, the entire meaning speaks to the heart of the reader, you create a phenomonal
depth, reaches reaches the center of the subject, your love for the earth is clearly shown, such
talent is a pleasure to read, and leaves the reader feeling a bit better about the world we live in

[Susan M]

Much better version - it's clearer now. I love the simplicity! :)

[Susan M]

The translation is a little bit rough, making it difficult to understand in places. Overall, it's a cautionary tale and a very charming story. Well done!