Three Wishes (cruel parable)

day three young friends during a picnic decided to walk into the woods and got lost there.A few hours the girl called for help and tried to get out of the thickets, with each step becoming gloomier.Suddenly one of the girls heard a human voice, someone shouting nearby.

Pleased girl thought it was a response to their calls of help, and hurried in the direction from which came the voice.Imagine their disappointment when, apart branches, they realized that they took the cries for help of the voice reinforcements!The fetid brown swamp, very close to the acute overgrown grass shore, drowning old woman.

It was she who called for help, and seeing friends, groaned again: "Help me!Get me out of here!I have no strength to hold on! "While the exterior of the old woman was the most repulsive and nasal voice and nasty, three girlfriends heart trembled at the sight of a terrible picture.They stretched a long stick to the old woman, for which she clung tightly, and together somehow pulled her out of the mire, let stubbornly refused his victim.

Feeling the firm ground under his feet, the old woman danced with joy to the great bewilderment of three girls in amazement looks at her stained marsh muck rags, long gray beard and burning eyes wild fire.Strange dance finished, the old woman turned to her savior, "Oh, you are my krasotulechki-dolls!How can I ever thank you for being pulled out of the swamp hag?Is it just to fulfill one wish!Come, clever-razumnitsy, say haste that is in your heart! »

girl was confused at first shyly laughed, then whispered in bewilderment, but eventually curiosity got the better.Although none of the girls did not take seriously the words of the strange old woman, each share with her his dearest wish.

first to speak plump redhead girl came from a poor family and suffer eternally because of their modest dresses, because of the need to save every penny, because of humiliating conversations with creditors, come to immediately pay a particular debt."What is really there, so if you want, so want.- She said - I personally want a million. ""Nothing else?" - Screamed the old woman."And nothing else!" - Red-haired girl shook her head."What a prude!- Clasped hands bony old woman.- Will you your millionchik, do not hesitate!What do you want? "- She turned to the skinny, sickly-looking black-haired girl.

This girl came from a family, burdened with many hereditary illnesses, so that almost none of her family do not live to old age.Her mother died when she was only two years older brother died at age 19 of tuberculosis, and his father spent the last few years in sanatoriums, trying in vain to extend the life of the dying rapidly.And no wonder that the girl, frightened by the early death of loved ones and their own ailments, the old woman asked for a long-long life."I want to live 100 years!- She murmured.- I want to live so long to finally write about me in the newspaper about how a sample of longevity ... »

« Of course, of course write!Oh, I'll try, "- the old woman nodded vigorously.And then he broke the third girl, slender and blond romantic, brought up on sentimental novels about extraterrestrial passions."As you all are limited philistine!- She exclaimed.- She wants money, she wants to longevity - and that's 16 years!What are your primitive benefits without the supreme good - the joy of love! "" Ah!- The old woman grunted.- How nice to hear such wisdom of speech!Ask for what you want! "" I beg love, - with dignity, said the blond girl.- I'm a great love which will be astonished nations and peoples;of which lay down their legends and movies will be removed. "

At these words the old woman wept with emotion, shmorgnula nose and promised to fulfill all."And now, my popsy, go right into it-to the oak tree, and then right along the track, right - and come out of the woods."Girlfriend went in that direction and, indeed, saw a clearing, in which both got out of the forest.Overjoyed, they hurried to his friends, almost forgetting about the strange encounter.

A few months after the incident life spread her three female friends, and fragile girlish friendship interrupted.More in this world, they never met, and never learned how to fulfill the desire of friends.

first wish came true a young blonde.It took a few years, and a thin girl turned into a glamorous blonde beauty queen balls and queen of hearts.But no, she did not give his heart, until one day at the ball-masquerade not met the handsome stranger - the crown prince of the ruling dynasty.The meeting turned into a mad passion, and the prince, despite the fact that his choice belonged to the humble old, he decided to drop the feet of the Emperor and beg leave to misalliance.But the Emperor was adamant.Not only that, he refused rudely;He demanded that the heir immediately broke up with his girlfriend and never saw her.And then, like the legendary Romeo and Juliet, the lovers preferred death to separation.Steady hand heir to the throne plunged a knife into the heart of the beautiful blonde, and then making sure that she was dead, put a bullet in the forehead.

Five years after the tragic incident which the authorities tried hard to silence abroad came first novel about the mad love of the Prince and Cinderella, then came another, and another.Number of stories focused on the fatal passion novels 7, 9 stories, 19 stories, three black and white and 4 color feature films and one television series of 25 episodes, and the house in which the lovers committed suicide, became a place of pilgrimage for the romantically inclined tourists.

quite differently developed personal life red-haired girl who dreams of becoming a millionaire.She married a neighbor, a poor but hard-working and a good man.Marriage came to be extremely happy, and although the couple did not manage to get rich of modest enough to ensure that in unity and in love to raise three children - two daughters and a pretty clever son.Nothing clouded horizon of happy mother and housewife, accustomed implicitly trust your husband, so that she suddenly came down with a sore throat just before Christmas, there was no doubt: if it can not, with the children on a vacation to the mountains to ski father go.Indeed, he coped with the duties in the best way, and happy children's voices on the phone were proof of that;and dad, and kids are so bored by his wife and mother that it was decided to change the tickets and return home two days earlier.

On the day of the premature return - it was a Saturday - a red-haired wife and mother, has recovered from the disease, rose before dawn and four hours to put things shine already shining clean apartment.But when the bell rang at the door, the owner could with a sense of accomplishment to run to the door.But behind the door, instead of her native people was a strange tall gentleman in black.Bowed, he reported that a representative of the insurance company, which last month signed a contract to her husband."Your spouse is insured with us the rest of your family, to 250 thousand each.Since the accuracy and promptness are the hallmarks of our company, let me give you a check for a million, which is the legitimate owner you are now. ""I do not understand - the redhead whispered.- What is the check? "" How - in turn surprised man in black - unless you do not know?Today at 6 am there was a terrible accident: train derails, killing more than half of the passengers.An hour ago we delivered the final list of those killed, and our company, finding in it the names of your husband and three children, in accordance with the terms of the insurance contract immediately sends you a million: 250 thousand for everyone ... I'm sorry, ma'am, but now you -millionaire! »

No doubt the news of the tragic death of her ex-girlfriend's family is very upset to the black-haired girl, if she was able at that time to perceive the surrounding reality.But alas, her mind struck the treacherous and sudden illness.At the age of twenty-five years she was first placed in a psychiatric hospital with hallucinations and other disorders of consciousness.A few months later her condition improved, and there is hope for recovery.The girl was discharged from hospital, but a few years later a new aggravation returned it on the same bed.At age 35, she was declared insane and in need of care, and because she had no family left, her home became a psychiatric hospital, where black-haired and spent many years.Changed doctors and nurses, to change methods of treatment and the names of drugs, as well as a black-haired, now graying patient remained.Among young nurses became the custom to argue how many more months will stretch the old woman;but they are always wrong.At the age of seventy years of sanity finally he left the poor, which has ceased to understand who she is, where is, and what it wants from other people.Withered, hours sitting motionless on his bed the old lady with white hair completely for a long time it was to go to a better world, but something kept and held at the ground torn flesh, which has long left the mind.

is not surprising that this phenomenon, scientists are interested in first, and then the journalists.The first mention in the press about the mysterious patient appeared when she was 90 years old;century and the poor man was a true sensation: there was no such newspaper in both hemispheres, which would not put an article entitled "The old woman managed to hold on in a mental hospital for 100 years!" or "The centenary of the insane."

So celebrated the last of three wishes come true.

Elena Sherman

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