Story-in-a-box

Introduction: The story is about one wood head and a drum player hope to live in their dream life, which they think their dream may be fulled with happiness. However, after a mage makes their dream come true, they are disappointed and live with painful during these years. Finally, they know one important thing: enjoying life and cherish what they have got now.

Story-in-a-box

Enjoy The Present

Qing Ren

Long time ago, there was a sculptor, he carved a wood head during his whole life, he called him Andrew. Andrew does not have a complete body to move, for this reason, he can only know this wonderful world through the description of passerbys.

In a winter, a drum player, who wore a feather coat and scarves, met Andrew. Drum player told Andrew that he played drum for others and brought joy to people’s lives. Even though he was happy every day, his income is rare, so he wanted to be as rich as the king. In addition, he told to Andrew, it was said that in India, there was a mage who had a big earlobe can make people’s dream come true. During the trip, he was going to find the mage and realized his dream. Andrew was excited to hear about this. He told drum player that his dream was to have a body so that he could explore the mysterious world. Thus, they started the trip looking for the mage.

They went toward the south, finally they paddled the canoe to an island which the mage lived in. When they saw the mage, the mage was researching a strange chemical in front of a beautiful white house. Drum player ran to the mage with Andrew as quickly as possible to tell him their wish. After thinking for a while, the mage nodded his head. He took out a glass bottle with wood plug from a bag in his left hand, then he pulled out the wood plug, took out three chestnuts and a seal. Mage told drum player that as long as you stamped the seal on white paper, the ink would became a golden coin. No matter how much money you wanted, you would never used them up. Then, the mage said to Andrew that if you ate up the chestnuts, you would have a new body. After Andrew came out a new body, mage used a yellow ruler to measure his new body. According to the body size of Andrew, he used a piece of cloth to make a new dress for Andrew. Both of them were thankful for the mage, and left happily.

Several years later, the drum player and Andrew met the mage again. They can't wait to tell the mage what their life are during these years. Drum player said, "as a matter of fact, I were not happy recently. Since people knew I were rich, their attitudes to me change gradually, people wanted to be friends with me just for my money, so that I did not have ture friends. What’s worse, I had to keep the seal safe because many people wanted to steal my magical seal. I haven’t slept well for a long time due to that I lived with fear, how I wish I could get my old life back.”
Similarly to drum player’s trouble, Andrew said to mage sadly, since he had the new body, he became sensitive to the changes in temperature and hunger, hence he must work every day in order to make more money to buy clothes and food. He was so busy and tired that he had no time to think about traveling around the world. Despite the fact that he knew he couldn't go anywhere, Andrew hoped he could get back to his carefree life. He was willing to give the mage all savings for his wish, at the same time, Andrew pulled out a yellow wallet and a blue wallet with all his savings inside. Mage refused Andrew’s money instead of taking out a small plate from his bag, then he poured into spring and asked them to drink it.

Next morning, drum player and Andrew both woke up in their own bed, magically, life had been got back. A few years later, drum player and Andrew do not remember clearly whether they meet the mage or not. Until now they still think it may be a dream about their fantastic experience, as far as they know one thing: they are enjoying life and cherish everything they have now.