STEALING IS BAD

Story shared by NYIRAMINANI PERAJI

One day, there was an old man and his wife. They had one son. The child grew up and reached to be a teenager. The child, realizing that his parents were too old, used to disrespect them because he knew that they could not beat him apart from talking, which to him did not matter. As a result, the boy did anything that he wanted, such as stealing people’s properties. People would catch him and bring him to his parents. But there was nothing parents would do to him since they were all old. They could take him to the local leader to warn him not to steal again. Because he was a spoiled boy who never minded respecting his parents. He stole from the age of six until age of seventeen.

One day, as he was used to stealing people, he jumped into a rich man’s wall and broke into his house and tried to steal. Then, the dog saw him and bit his leg. He started shouting and the houseboy came and threw him outside the gate. The boy ran while bleeding and asking for help until he reached home. His mother asked him why he was hurt, and the boy replied that “nothing that much serous. It’s just an injury”. Then the pain got worse due to the dog bite, which forced his parents to take him to the hospital. At the hospital, his parents were told that their child had been infected by a rabies and it couldn’t be treated because it was too late. Later the child died. And he became a reference point in the village for undisciplined children.