Joonie was a clever boy who loved to stay at the study table the whole of his free time. He had a lot of different books, many were gifted by his friends and family. He had a mini library at home. Every time his mother needed him, “Where are you Joon boy?”, she would get a reply, “Here mom!”, from his study room.
It was time, they moved to a new place. On entering his new bedroom, Joon saw many toys and dolls, kept perfectly neat and tidy on a shelf as if been dusted a while ago. He was so happy to see it all.
He played with his new toys for a while and after dinner, he went straight away to sleep leaving his toys all over the place, without having tidied up his room floor.
When he woke up the next morning, he saw all his toys and dolls all back in their proper place. He had a feeling that no one had entered his room. But then he thought his mother might have cleaned up the mess he left. The second morning too the same was repeated. All the toys and dolls were placed tidily exactly at their proper places. He did not dare to ask his mother as he felt he would get scoldings from her for not cleaning up his room before going to bed.
That night he thought ,” Tomorrow morning I will get up before mom and I’ll clean up my room”, and went to bed.
Next morning when he woke up early to do his destined task, he was again surprised to see all the toys back in their place and exactly the same as he had seen them the first day! He wondered,” Did mom get up this early?”
After his morning routine, he went to the kitchen for breakfast. His mother said, “Morning Joonie. I am not feeling well so could not prepare breakfast. Please have bread with milk in breakfast today”.
Joonie was left in a state of shock. “It means that mom did not keep my toys! Then who did?”. Joonie felt creepy. He looked towards his room, put his steps ahead, opened the room door, and walked slowly in. He gave a strange look at his toys. “They all look normal”, he said to himself while scanning through each doll on the shelf, with his eyes. He looked deep into an old teddy bear. He felt as if the teddy bear wanted to talk with him. “Why are you so surprised?” asked the teddy bear. Joonie was startled and he fell back banging to his table.
“You always leave us away from our place. Don’t you feel uncomfortable lying on the cold floor just like that whole night?”. Joonie was listening to the teddy bear with wide eyes.
Joonie recalled that his mother would always put him in bed where he would get sound sleep to be waking up fresh in the morning. He felt how comfortable and cozy he felt in his own bed and how bad he had felt when he had gone to sleep on his study table.
He realized the importance of our own place. He realized his mistake of how he treated his toys. To ask for forgiveness, just as he was about to get up and stand on his feet, he fell down with a huge “Thud!!”. He fell down from his bed. “Oh!!”, Joonie said to himself, “It was all a dream?”. He looked at the clock and it was 6 in the morning. He got up and looked at the toys lying on the floor he had left them before dinner last night. “I am sorry guys”, he apologized realizing the dream and putting all the toys back in their place.
He kept talking to them, “It’s a pleasant lesson I learned guys. I never expected to learn this valuable life lesson by chance. Thank you guys”. Joonie had a smile on, as he put all his toys in place.