I do not think so my dear child, Pa Sunday answered. Will you enjoy telling a story? Dera asked his grandpa, I think so grandpa answered with a big smile.
Three of the other children turned their face towards grandpa Sunday and demanded a story to be told to them, Pa Sunday looked around and he discovered that all his grand children were starring at him.
Do you all want to hear a story? he asked them. The Children shouted Yes together.
I am going to tell you a story he said, and the Children reacted happily but you have to listen carefully to the story so that you will be able to understand the meaning and the message it has to pass across.
It is a story that will be very meaningful to all of you as you make your way through life. It will expose you to all the sweet and bitter paths of life and the secret to greatness which everyone sees but only a few discover and dare to thread.
The story is all about a dwarf named Tikan. Tikan was born like every one of us and he was growing up like a normal child until the age of five when his development became very slow. By the age of seven, Tikan stopped growing and this made his parents, and everyone around worried.
They did all within their power to stimulate his body system into action but all this yielded no positive effect.
Gradually people began to treat Tikan like an outcast, he had no one to fall back on, he had no one to hear a few words of encouragement fro, he became a sad and frustrated person as he lived in total hopelessness.