A very good morning to honourable judges and teachers.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful peacock who lived in the jungle.

Every morning and evening he would go near the water to water the
body. It felt to him that the summers had lasted forever, he was getting
quite tired of the heat.

One fine morning, just like every day, while he was on his way to the
water body, he looked up at the sky and could see the clouds coming
nearby. Full of joy and hope for finally getting rid of the scorching sun,
the peacock spread his feathers and started to dance in happiness. Just
as he reached the water body, it began to pour, such beautiful thick
water droplets, ah! What a great day, he thought to himself.

While the peacock was still feeling joyous and dancing all around near
the lake in the rain, he heard a nightingale singing nearby. Oh, such a
sweet voice she has, thought the peacock happily. Let me sing along
with her. Thinking that the peacock too started singing, but just as he did,
he realized that his voice was not as nice as the nightingale, in fact, it
wasn’t nice at all to sing. This upset him badly and he began to think
what was the point of such beautiful weather if he could not even sing
along with the nightingale.

Peacock stopped dancing and sat in a corner, it seemed that all of a

sudden, all the reasons for his happiness has disappeared and instead
had made not only his mood foul but also aware of his weaknesses.

The peacock standing by the small river again heard the nightingale sing,
but he was sad and jeolous that even the sweet sounds didn’t sound
pleasant to him, but felt as if the nightingale was poking fun of him by
singing in her sweet voice.
How dare she! Later, after the rain stop, he went to her and told her,” we
all know that you have a beautiful voice but there is no need to show it
off by singing so sweetly and reminding others that they can’t sing. How
terrible of you!”

The nightingale looked at the peacock with a smile full of compassion.

“My dear peacock”, she said, “I was only singing because I was happy in
the rains and not to show anyone that I could sing. If you felt bad
because of me then please accept my apologies. But my dear friend can
I tell you something”. “Go a head” said the peacock.

“We all have our share of our strengths and weaknesses. If I can sing
well then you have a beautiful body and feathers, What I am trying to say
each and everyone of us is blessed with different gifts in life and we
should be very thankful”. Peacock realized that she was indeed right,
agreed that he could not sing but he had been blessed with the most
beatiful feathers

He realized his mistake, apologized to the nightingale for his rudeness..

The moral value of this story is we should always be thankful for what we
have.
Bye... see you again.