The power of Positivity

Once upon a haystack, there was a lonely farmer who lived in the middle of a thriving countryside. He was getting old, and although he was a hard worker, he felt it was nearly time to give up the farm and retire.

One day, he was feeding out to his livestock as usual, when he saw a group of school children coming down the road. When they reached the gate to the paddock, most of them just glanced at him and hurried off, not wanting to dwardle, but one young girl stayed behind. She hung near an old wooden post, and held out an apple she had been eating. One of the old sheep in the paddock hobbled over and took the offering, then nuzzled up to the girl’s hand. For a moment the girl just sat there stroking the sheep, then she looked up at the man with her sky blue eyes and dazzled him with the most beautiful smile he had ever seen.  She said one last goodbye to the animals and skipped off, humming to herself.

From then on, every morning the old man got up early to have a look around the lane for the girl before he feed out, but he never saw her again. Eventually he turned the farm into a petting zoo, and people come every day to pat the animals and talk to him so he was never lonely again, but he never forgot that girl with the smile.