Beauty And The Turtle

Once upon a time there was a butterfly called Beauty. She was very beautiful, but too proud of her beauty. She was always busy looking at herself in the mirror and admiring herself.

One day, Beauty met a turtle who told her that she was too proud of herself. She got angry with him. The turtle said, "I'll show you that are you too proud of yourself. Let's have some races."

The first race was the running race. Beauty thought to herself, "Ha! A running race! I'm surely going to win. The turtle is so slow, and he can't even fly. I'll win this race easily." She started flying, but suddenly remembered to check her lipstick. She removed her mirror and lipstick from her bag and applied it. She then resumed her flying and was about to reach the finishing line when she heard, "I won! I won!"

Beauty couldn't believe her eyes that the turtle had won the running race. She huffed and suggested that they have another race. The turtle suggested that they have a swimming race. Beauty was a good swimmer. She agreed to the race.

They started the race in the pond. Just as she was going to jump in, she saw herself in the water. And she kept admiring herself. She forgot all about the race. After a few minutes, she remembered that she had to swim and started swimming to the end line. But again, the turtle won the race.

When she reached the finishing line, the turtle said, "See! I won again! You lost time admiring your own beauty!"

Beauty realised her mistake. She promised that she would never again keep thinking only about her beauty. They both became good friends!