Once upon a time, the wind and water were truly three friends.
And one day, truth and water asked the wind: “Tell me, friend, you are very fast and roam all over the world very quickly, tell me, when you need me, where can I find you?”
The wind replied: “You will find [me] between the mountains. If you don’t find me there, then go to the huge poplar, which is called the “shaking poplar”, there you will always find me.”
Then the wind actually asked the water where to find it at the right moment. “You will find [me] in the fountains or between the reeds. You will definitely find me there.”
And in the end, the water and the wind asked the truth: “Where can I really find you at the right moment?”
And she answered: “Friends, as long as you have me and hold me well in your hands, and if I get out of your hands, you will not be able to find me anywhere, since by nature I cannot stand those who leave me, and I think that those who ignore me and have little respect for me do not have the honor of having me.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru