Cerita Fabel

The Ant & The Grasshopper

In the middle of the forest, there lived a very diligent ant. Every day these small ants always tried to collect food
and stored it in the barn. The heat of the sun and the heavy rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Ant to
gather food. With great effort, the Ant worked hard to bring food for the food which had collected to store in his
barn.

 One day, when the Ant was trying to bring his food to be stored in a barn, the Ant met a grasshopper who was
enjoying sunbathing while lazing.

“Hi ants … what are you doing?” Asked the grasshopper. “I am gathering food to store in the barn,” said the
Ant.

Grasshopper laughs “Why to bother to collect food, how many foods can we eat in the forest?”

“It’s true, but I keep my food in preparation for the winter,” said the ant, trying to push the food he found into
the barn. Grasshoppers laugh again while mocking the ant.

“Winter is still long, why bother now? After all, there is still plenty of time for that. We better have fun first, “he
said while eating the green leaves that were nearby. The ant did not care about the grasshopper who was lazing
around, he was still busy collecting food for the food he could find.

The next day, early in the morning, the Ant was preparing to find food again. When he opened the door of his
house to go, he saw that grasshoppers were sitting there playing guitar and lazing around. The Ant only
shooked his head and passed immediately. Grasshoppers who saw ants had begun to busy looking for food
again, just laughing and mocking.

“For what is difficult … make it difficult … the trouble is useless,” the grasshopper humming accompanied the
steps of the ants who were about to leave.

Thus the whole day the Ants were busy collecting their food in the barn while the Grasshopper was preoccupied
with playing the guitar, sunbathing and lazing.

After working for most of the year, the barn where the Ant’s supplies were almost full, but this did not make the
diligent Ant become lazy. He still tried to find food to store in his barn.

“While there is still a chance, I have to keep trying to collect food, because no one knows how long the winter
will last,” said the ant in the heart. Meanwhile, the grasshopper, still just lazing around and having fun all day
long.

Fall soon arrived. The trees that were green slowly changed to brownish yellow. The grass began to dry out.
The air got colder. The ant who diligently did not give up hope. He still tried to find food even though the place
was full. Whereas the lazy Grasshopper began to busy gathering food for supplies in the winter.

Finally, winter arrived. The diligent Ant sat comfortably in his warm house while enjoying his abundant food.
Whereas the lazy Grasshopper only kept a little food supply. The Grasshopper thought winter would end soon,
so why to bother collecting food in the barn.

Day after day, week after week, it didn’t feel like a month had passed and the cold season was still not over. The
grasshopper’s food supply was exhausted. He could only look at the comfortable and warm Ant’s house from
behind his window and then tried to find food in the middle of winter, but he did not succeed. Finally, with
embarrassment, he knocked on the Ant’s door.

“Tok … bro … bro … bro …” the Grasshopper began to knock. The Ant opened the door and said: “What’s the
matter?”

“Please give me a little of your food supply, because my supply is up, and I am very hungry,” said the locust.

 The Ant laughs “It’s good for you to go … when I struggled to collect my food, you even mocked me. And now
you ask for my food? “Said the ant, mocking.

“Go, find your own food …,” said the ant, continuing. Grasshopper also left the ant’s house to find his food,
but he didn’t find anything. When the Grasshopper almost died of cold and hunger, the Ant came to help him
and invited the grasshopper to live in his warm and comfortable home and abundant food.