Once upon a time there lived a very old man. His eyes were blinded, his hearing was dull, his knees trembled. He could hardly hold a spoon in his hands and while eating he often spilled soup on the tablecloth, and sometimes some of the food fell out of his mouth. The son and his wife looked at the old man with disgust and during meals began to sit him in a corner behind the stove, and served him food in an old saucer. From there he looked sadly at the table, and his eyes became wet. One day his hands were shaking so much that he could not hold a saucer of food. It fell to the floor and broke. The young mistress began to scold the old man, but he did not say a word, but only sighed heavily. Then they bought him a wooden bowl. Now he had to eat from it.
One day, when the parents were sitting at the table, their four-year-old son entered the room with a piece of wood in his hands.
-What do you want to do? - asked the father.
“A wooden feeder,” answered the baby. Mom and Dad will eat from it when I grow up.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru