Một vài mẩu truyện ngắn tiếng Anh hay và ý nghĩa

Cả nhà ơi, ai có truyện ngắn tiếng Anh hay thì cùng vào đây chia sẻ bà con cùng đọc để học tiếng Anh luôn nha.
Hôm nay rảnh rỗi ngồi đọc được mấy truyện ngắn cực hay, chia sẻ với bà con luôn ^^.

Truyện thứ nhất: THE WISE OLD MAN
A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits.
The scholar took the youth for a s***** through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there. The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all.
"Now pull out that one," said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.
"Now take this one out," said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The youth grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge.
"I – It's impossible," said the boy, panting with the effort.
"So it is with bad habits," said the sage. "When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted."
The session with the old man changed the boy's life.

Truyện thứ hai: THE BEST ARTIST.
A despotic sultan who was blind in one eye invited three artists to paint his picture.
“If you do a bad portrait, I will punish you,” he warned, “ but if you do a good one I will reward you. Now start!”
The first artist produced a picture that showed the sultan as he was: blind in one eye.
The sultan had him executed for showing disrespect to his monarch.
The second artist showed him with both eyes intact.
The sultan had him flogged for trying to flatter him.
The third artist drew him in profile, showing only his good eye.
The sultan, pleased, rewarded him with gold and honours.

Mình mới đọc được truyện ngắn về Phật giáo cũng rất hay:

PEACE OF MIND

Buddhist was going from town to town with some of his followers. They happened to pass by a lake and they decided to stop a little close to it to rest.
After resting for a while, the Buddhist told one of his followers, 'I'm dying of thirst, please move down to the lake and get me some water to drink'
The follower immediately obeyed and went down to get his master a drink of water. When he got there, he met a group of natives washing clothes in the water. While still there, a bullock cart crossed through the lake and the water became so turbid and dirty. He couldn't get clean water for his master todrink. He felt it was inappropriate to give the dirty water to his master and so, he went back to explain things to him.
Getting to his master, he told him, ''I met some people washing by the lake, the water is very muddy and it is not fit to be drunk''
After an hour or there about, the Buddhist sent the disciple to the lake again to get him water to drink. Not uttering a word of complain, the follower obeyedand went down to get the water for his Buddhist master.
This time around, he discovered that the water was no longer muddy and dirty as it was before, it had settled and was clean, hence, fit for drinking. He tooksome water in the jar he took with him and went back to his master.

The Buddha took the water, looked at the disciple in the face and said,"See what you did to make the water clean, you let it be... and the mud settled down on its own - And you got clear and clean water. Your mind is alsolike that. When it is disturbed, just let0it be. Give it a little time, it will settle down on its own. You don't need to put in any effort to calm it down, it will happen. It's effortless"

Nhiều truyện hay quá, thanks for sharing