There once lived
a Kenyan woman, named Pendo who always dreamt about traveling the world
someday. A store clerk by profession, Pendo thought that she never had an
exciting life as her job offered no adventures. So, one day she thought of
leaving everything and fulfilling her lifelong dream of traveling the world and
finding true happiness.
Pendo quit her
job, booked a flight to Spain, packed her stuffs and left. She packed all her
things she needed, including her favorite old
blanket with flowers which her mother gave her when she was a kid. Spain
was a fascinating place for Pendo. She saw small traditional farms with beautiful flowers. She was so excited to see
people living simple lives, yet being happy and satisfied. One of the families
she met had nothing except a small house. Yet, they were so welcoming and
offered her food that was serving in old traditional plates and housing. She was completely amazed by the fact that
these people had nothing and were still trying to help others. Next day, the
family gave her three chestnuts for
good luck and then she went to Germany for new adventures.
Next her stop
was Germany. Pendo was so amused by Germany as she was visiting different
museums to get a chance to know their culture better. During her visit to an
art store, a peculiar piece of art grabbed her attention. A wooden sculpture of a bald woman stunned her as this sculpture trying
to say something with its eyes. All of a sudden. Pendo felt like the sculpture
was talking to her. She was thinking if this head could tell her about her
future, it would be a blessing. She felt that woman head had some kind of power
that could make her happy. At the same time, one man who was standing next to
her bought that bald head to make her happy. She was so surprised that some
people were so kind and could buy gifts for strangers. She thanked the man and left.
After, she went
to Italy. There was a beautiful exhibition of ceramic pots and glass. She was walking around looking at the beautiful pots.
Suddenly, she saw the guy playing drums.
She was looking at his happy face and wondered if he could help her. She got
closer to him and started talking. He noticed that Pendo was sad. She looked
for him a little bit lost and disappointed. He told her: “our life is like canoe in the river which goes just a
forward and never go back. If you have your dream go for it even if you need to
fight for that, but never be sad.” She said “But, I don’t what happiness is. How
can I be happy?”. He gave her one of his lucky coins which symbolized “the year
of the dog” in Chinese calendar. And then he said: “Keep this coin with you all
the time and think about positive things. It can be any anything that made you
smile. if you smile it means you are happy! You are not running for something unreal
everything comes in its own time. We cannot measure our life with the ruler anything can happen and never
know what’s going to be next”. Pendo was so thankful to that man. She kept the
coin in her leather wallet and she
started realizing what he said.
Each item that
she got from people struck in her heart like a stamp. She understood that even small things can make a person
happy. She got 3 items from different people who made her smile. Where there is
smile, there is happiness!
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