The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Slowness

Author: SEPOULVEDA LOUIS

Translation: ACHILLEAS KYRIAKIDIS

"Owl, I want to ask you a question."

"What question do you want to ask me?"

"I want to know why I'm so slow."

The owl opened its huge eyes, wondered at the snail, and then closed them again.

"You are a young snail, and everything you have seen, everything you have tried, the bitter and the sweet, the rain and the sun, the frost and the night, all these go with you, they weigh you down, and as you are so da, you become slow from the weight. "

"And what do I gain by being so slow?" whispered the snail.

"I do not have an answer to that.

"Find her alone" said the owl and, in her silence, showed him that she would not accept any more questions.

The snail that bears the original name "Rebel" is a restless and persistent character who bothers his team with his questions, and that is why he is expelled from the meadow. The Rebel accepts his fate and leaves for exile, but his path is not lonely: on his slow journey he makes new friends and realizes that a great danger threatens the snail genus. He decides to return to the meadow to sound the alarm, but who knows if his ex-partners will agree to listen to him ...