403. THE BLUE BUTTERFLY

Once upon a time a widower lived with his two daughters. They were always curious about everything and were also very intelligent.
His daughters were always asking their father a lot of questions.
Sometimes he was able to answer their questions and other times it was impossible.

Of course, the father wanted the best education for his daughters.
Therefore he decided to send his girls on vacation to a very wise man who lived alone high up in a mountain.
This man always answered any kind of questions.

As the girls were so smart, they decided to ask a question which the wise man wouldn´t be able to answer.
One of the girls had an idea for a question.
One of the sisters caught a blue butterfly and told her sister to hold it in her hand and then ask the wise man if the butterfly was alive or dead. This way anyway he answers.... it will be wrong.





So they went to the man to ask this question:
"Wise man, I´m holding a blue butterfly in my hand.
If you say the butterfly is dead, I will open my hand and let the butterfly fly, but if you say the butterfly is alive, I will squish and kill the butterfly.
Very camly the wise man said, "That depends on you...she is completely is in your hands"

The moral is that this is the way our life is, our present and our future.
We must never blame anyone when something goes wrong.
We are responsible for our achievements and our failures in life.
Our life is in our hands, just like the blue butterfly.
It´s up to us to choose what to do with the blue butterfly...let her fly or kill her.

Exprsessions
- To go wrong  = salir mal
- It´s up to us  = es nuestra decision

To learn more vocabulary, look up words you don´t know in the dictionary and write them down in your notebook

Verbos frasales:
- Look up = buscar algo en el dicionario
- Write down  = apuntar

Michael Jackson canta "You give me butterflies"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wthgd_Rg1qg

A ver si sabes que quiere decir "You give me butterflies"