Outstanding Stories » Food Spilling Good Or Bad?

“Food Spilling Good Or Bad?” is one of the outstanding stories (sub-junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Aradhna.R, DAV Girls Senior Secondary School, Chennai, India.

Food Spilling Good Or Bad?

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Ram. He lived in a small village in Tamilnadu, India.Ram’s parents were poor farmers. Their only happiness was, their 6-years-old son Ram. His mother’s name was Meera and his father’s name was Govindan. Ram was studying in the village government school where education was free, as his parents did not have enough money for his studies.

Ram was a brilliant boy among his friends,and studied well. He had many friends in school because he was lovable, kind hearted, intelligent and smart. He always help others and respect elders. He was a sweet and jolly person too. Everybody likes Ram because of his good character. He always spent time playing with his friends. One day, after he played with his friends and came back home, he felt very hungry, and asked his mom to give some food for him. His mother gave a bowl full of rice. He ate the whole bowl of rice.

When he ate, he spilt the food. Very first time, he saw the ants eating the spilt food very happily. Next day while he ate his lunch, he again spilt the food, and saw the ants eating the spilt food very happily! Same thing happened in the next day too. He thought that spilling the food while eating is good, as the ants can eat it and be happy.

So, he regularly started eating by spilling the food. He too was so happy, that he was able to feed the hungry ants and make them happy. When he grew big, he started knowing that spilling of food while eating is a bad habit.

But he continued with the same bad habit happily ever after… As he felt “Hunger is more important than the Bad Habit”!!!