The Fir Tree

He thought, "I want to sail across the sea.
I want to be a gigantic mast with dancing sails.
I would be so happy."

The air and the sunshine heard the tree and said,
"Don't wish for another life. Be happy now.
You have warm sunlight. You have a healthy trunk.
But the tree did not understand them.

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The tree thought, "It sounds wonderful.
It is better than sailing across the sea.
I want to live in such a place.
I suffer so much in this forest!
Something better must be waiting for me."

Again, the sunlight and the air heard the tree.
They said to him,
"Do not be so foolish.
Your life in the forest is the best.
Be happy with that."
But the tree ignored them.

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M"y life in the forest really was the best.
I wasted my life.
I always wished for something more interesting.
I never enjoyed the simple things in my life.
Now, it is over. There is nothing I can do."

But it was too late for regrets now.