The blind and the frog
Once upon a time , a bouncing baby boy was born certainly in a little village called Oneida in ondo state in the western region of Nigeria . The men of thought said , the boy was living alone in a small hut near a river. The hut was built by his late parents.
The boy name is called Ato. He lost his parents when he was very young. His parents encountered storm mishap on a rver when they were crossing the river to opposite side for farming activities, since they were peasant farmer and drowned .
The villagers who came to rescue them could not see the parents again when their small canoe tips over. The village people could not able to rescue them due to the storm.
Ato was very lucky to be alive and because of that incident, he lost his sight and
Since that time, he had never retain his sight and he had never seen anything again. He lost his sight at the early stage of his life when he was just six months old. He became blind.
Ato was being taking care of by his grandparents . After some years, his grandparents too died . Ato did not have answers to what has happened to him. All of his relatives rejected to take his responsibility because they felt that he was blind and could not be useful for them either sending him errands or go to work in the farm for them. They abandoned Ato in his parents hut and his relatives refused to take care of him.
Moreover, Ato was blind, he usually crawled along the road to a nearby village to beg for alms for his daily bread. In many several occasion, he usually lost on his way when going to the village or when coming back home. Latter onward , as he was growing up, he had been familiar with the road, so he don't get lost again. Furthermore, he don't used to ask for help as he used to do when he lost his way home.
One fateful day, Ato had closed for begging and have some money. He went home with expectation of coming back next day to continues the business. Getting to his hut, he felt pains all over his body to the extent that he couldn’t able to eat his dinner before he went to bed.
He had no family-friends nor relatives that will take him to hospital . And even if he had relatives or family friends, there are two problematic issues at hand. That is, no money, and no hospital in their community. Many of the villagers travelled far away for treatment of their ailments. Ato was alone. He had nobody that could come to visit him or prepared food for him. He knew in his heart that he cannot survived from the illness.
He knew that, he is going to die. He can't talk nor eat even if there was food on the table. He had nobody to ask for his or her help. The sickness had been worsened. It had laid its hands on Ato's foot and nail. No vllager asked of him even when they have not seeing him some days in the village. In fact, the trsgic deaths of his parents broken his heart while he was on sick bed.
One faithful evening, God send an unknown person to visit him. The person went to his hut, and gave him food. The good sammaritan fed Ato, and placed the leftover besides his bed. The food was uncovered because it was very hot. A tiny frog leaps from the riverside and jumped into the food and because the food was very hot, the frog died. Later in the night, Ato had got little strenght, he stood up and saw the bowel besides him.
He took the bowel with little food and ate it. He did not know that frog had jumped into the food and died. He thought the frog is meat, and took the frog and ate it. He pulled the skin, stretched it ups and down with all his strenght. Unfortunately and suddenly the stew splashed and splattered his face and entered his two eyes. He suddenly felt some tidious pain and crawlcraweled to the river. He washed his face several times with water until the pain gradually began to reduce . Few minutes later, he crawled back to his hut and slept.
The next day, he wakes up and found that he could see things he had never seen in his life. He jumped up and shouted joyfully. He thanked his dead parents that healed him. He also thanked his creator and ran to the village with happiness. When the villagers saw him, they began to wonder, and they asked many wuestion that has no answered.
