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"The Insect in the Basin" (A short story)
One morning, two boys and one little girl had just done playing and was just getting back to their homes when they come across the abandoned house. They always past this house and sometimes play inside it. The house was so old that it has rust and some of it's windows were broken and there was no roof at all. Vines sprouted in it's walls and almost the floor was covered with soil. The only thing that the children fancy is the little basin by the corner. When rain falls, this basin was full of water and children would play with their paper boat in it. Now, the children was just going to put the paper boat in it when they got distracted by a little insect that seems to be swimming in the water inside it.
"Look at this insect, having a swim in this basin!!"exclaimed the little girl.

"Probably, he's taking a bath."joked one of the boys.

"Let's make him chase our paper boat!"shouted the other boy.

So they placed their one paper boat in the basin and watched the insect as it struggled to get to the running paper boat. After a while, the children got bored because the insect wasn't moving at all. The little girl pick the insect with her palm and accidentally crushed one of it's wings. The little girl and the two boys watched closely and realises that the insect was dead and a guilty feeling had been felt by the children who played the paper boat.

Lesson: You should never underestimate someone by how little they are or how little they struggled because you don't really know how much you hurt someone by your judgement.