The story of the cloud of dreams -Author of the story Mohsen Fardroo
cloud of dreams Author of the story Mohsen Fardroo
The story of the “cloud of dreams” is told in the old stories of this land that there was a little florist girl who lived with her father in a small wooden hut near the old town. Her father would go to the desert early in the morning and pick beautiful natural flowers and give them to his daughter. The little girl also put the flowers in a simple basket and went to the gate of the city castle and sold the flowers to the people passing by until the afternoon.
One day, in front of the big door of the castle, while the florist girl was arranging her flowers, she saw a young prince who dismounted from his horse, went to the girl and bought a beautiful bouquet of flowers and paid a silver coin. The florist girl thanked the prince. The prince said: I have seen you here for a long time, selling flowers. The girl said, “Yes, Prince, I live with my old father in a small wooden shelter across the city. My father farms in the morning after picking these flowers from the desert, and I sell the flowers here to make a living. “Well done”. The prince said: Congratulations to you for your efforts. What do you want to do when you grow up? The florist girl said: “I do not know, I have not thought about it yet”. The prince was surprised and said, “Don’t you have a cloud of dreams?” The girl said: “No, I do not know what cloud wishes is”? The prince laughed and said as she rode his horse: “Everyone has a cloud of dreams. You have to have a cloud of dreams too” He said this and left. The girl thought. What does that mean? At night, in their little hut, when she was going to sleep, asked his father “do you know what the cloud of wishes is? His father said “yes. The cloud of wishes is the same as wishes. That means you have to define the aspirations you have in life”. The girl said: Can I also have super dreams? The father said: “everyone has big dreams. For example, I wish you would grow up sooner and become well-educated and happy in life. The girl said: “Well, I also wish to become a good and famous chef when I grow up and cook delicious food for you so that we do not eat so much bread and yogurt.” The father laughed and said: “My daughter, this bread and yogurt is the wish of many poor people who do not have the same food to eat.” The girl thought about it and thought about the cloud of wishes until morning. From that day on, the girl asked everyone who went to her to buy flowers: Do you know what cloud wishes is? Do you have a cloud of dreams? Some people laughed. Some said: “Yes, we have a lot of wishes”. Some said: “We do not have and some did not answer. One day a kind old woman who had come to buy flowers said to her: “Yes, I have a lot of dreams; do you have a dream too”? The florist girl said: “Yes, I wish to be a good and famous cook”. The women kindly said: “Well done, what a good wish, but then what”? The girl said: “well should there be next”? The old lady said: “Yes, your cloud has no sail”. The girl surprisingly said: “Sail”? “What is sail”? The girl was thinking about the sail when she realized that the kind lady had gone away.
From that day on, the girl asked all the flower buyers: Excuse me, do you have any dreams? Do you know what a sail of dreams means? Many laughed and many did not answer, and some thought she was joking and gave vague answers. Another said that sail means sail, this is no longer a question.
One morning, the florist girl decided to go to the river and asked the old fisherman who was returning from the sea: Kind man, do you know what the sail of dreams is? The old man said: Why do you ask this question? The girl said: “I have been told that the cloud of my dreams does not have a sail. I do not know what the dream sail cloud is”? The fisherman turned to the sea and said, “Look, the ships that are moving there have sails.” The wind blows into the sail and propels the ship forward. If the wind does not blow or the sail is not on the ship, the ship cannot move forward.
Probably the dream cloud also should have sail to move along. The girl had just realized what is meant by the sail of the dream cloud? She was happy and gave a bunch of flowers to the fisherman then ran and left. Tomorrow morning she had another question in her mind. How should the cloud sail make her dreams come true? She asked everyone who came to her to buy: Do you know how to make a sail of dreams?
One day the prince came to her again to shop. The prince said: “Did you finally make the cloud of your dreams?” The girl said: Yes, I made a cloud of wishes, but it does not have a sail. Do you know how the sail of a cloud of wishes is made? The prince laughed and said: Did you not ask your father? The girl answered: “I asked my father and he said that his aspirations did not have a sail because he did not know how to make a sail of aspirations”. The prince replied: “Come with me, a sage lives in our palace who was my childhood teacher. Let’s ask him how it will be”? The florist girl went with the prince to the palace. They talked about the story of a cloud dream and the old sage said: “In order to know the answer you have to work in the palace kitchen for seven years and learn to cook, and in the afternoons you have to learn reading and writing with me. The girl accepted and worked in the palace kitchen for seven years, learning to read and write waiting for the question to be answered. During this time, every time she asked the sage how the sail of the cloud of dreams is made? Sage said in a loud voice that seven years of service in the kitchen and school education had not yet ended, and the girl wait for it. Little by little, the girl became a skilled cook and learned everything in cooking and well-educated. But one day he was informed that the old sage was ill and that his life was coming to an end. She cooked soup and took it to the sage then he ate some soup and said to the girl: You are now a good and worthy cook. The girl said: O kind and wise man, you have not answered my question for many years, so there is still time for me to tell you how the sail of super dreams is made. The sage said: “the sail of dreams is the power and strength that you must have to achieve your dreams”. During these seven years, you were busy building the sail of your dreams and you did not know it yourself. You wanted to be a good cook and now you have learned to cook and you learned literacy to have the strength needed for your future work and now you are knowledgeable. The cloud sail of your dreams has been already made. The girl was happy and thanked him. He said: “now you have the sail of your dream cloud, but the wheel of your dream cloud has not been made yet.” What is the wheel of dreams? The sage stopped talking and went to bed as if he were ill. The girl was thinking of the wheel for the cloud of dreams, but a few days later she heard that the sage had been sent to another city for treatment.
The girl decided to go to another city in search of him. He went to the prince to get permission to travel. The prince said that your work in the palace is not over yet and you have to work for a few days more. On the first day of cooking, when the food was cooked and ready, the girl began to think about how to build the wheel of the dream, when she suddenly realized that the food was smoky due to distraction. She cried sadly, but the king ordered them to bring lunch as soon as possible. The girl had to put the smoked food on a tray and take it to the king. The king and the prince and those around him realized that the food was smoky. The king said: Girl, will you give us smoked food on the first day of your cooking? The girl did not say anything out of embarrassment. The prince laughed and said: you must have been thinking of the cloud of your dreams. The prince ate some of the food and said to the king, “Sir, try it. The food does not taste bad.” The king ate the smoked fish and rice and said: “This is a new taste. From now on, we will name this food smoked fish and smoked rice and we will order the smoked food to be cooked once a week.” Everyone was happy and the girl was happiest
From then on, it was regular in the city for all people to eat smoked fish and smoked rice once a week in the way of the king kitchen, and once a week women had the opportunity to think about their dreams and burn the family food and make it kind of smoky. Eventually, the girl asked the prince for permission and went to another city to find the old sage but the opportunity was lost and she found out the sage has passed away. The girl had to make a big pot in the new city and cook delicious food to sell it in a small cart in the city market. Gradually, people welcomed her food, and she built a large and famous kitchen, and people from all over the city came to eat her food. One day she was selling food an old lady who had seen her years ago came to buy food. The girl recognized her, and said, “Do you remember that you guided me on the cloud of wishes?” The old lady thought and said yes, yes, I remembered that you are the same girl who sells flowers. The girl said: Yes, now I have supernatural desires and my supernatural wishes have a sail but no wheel. The old lady said why there is no wheel for it? The girl answered: “because I do not know what the wheel of dreams is? The old lady said, “It’s simple. What does the wheel do on the ship?” Determines the direction of the ship. You must navigate your cloud of dreams in the direction you need to. The girl thought about how to determine the direction of movement of the cloud of dreams? The old lady had left when she suddenly came out of thinking. The girl went to her father and asked him? His father said: I think that the direction of your desires should be a direction that God is pleased with, that is serving the people. You have now become a good cook and your aspirations are sailing, you are literate and you know how to cook, but your work is not yet for the pleasure of God and serving the people, and your aspirations have not found direction.
Remember when you said that you want to make people have good food to eat besides bread and yogurt, and I also said that some people do not have the same bread and yogurt? So make sure that even poor people can use your food. The girl shouted happily:” Yes, I found the wheel of my dreams”. From that day on, he wrote a sign in his kitchen announcing that cheap food would be given to the poor in this kitchen, and that anyone who had no money could consume food on credit. With this service that the girl did for the poor and the people, God was pleased with her and her fame reached different cities. The king asked that the famous cook be brought to him to another city. When the girl came to the king, she realized that the former prince had now become a king. The prince was glad to see her and said that you made us proud and gave her a lot of jewelry. The girl thanked her and said: “You guided me and helped to make the sail of my dreams come true in your kitchen and school, and I will spend your gifts to serve the people more and cook better and cheaper food.” The prince pointed to the sky and said: “These are the clouds of dreams of different people that are wandering in the sky and have no sails or rudders. If they only knew how to build a sail for their cloud of dreams, they would succeed”. The girl said: “But you never said anything about your dreams”? The prince replied: “The cloud of my dreams has also approached its destination. First I became empowered and learned patriotism, and then I built the wheel to service the people and please the God. But on the ship of my dreams there is a place left for a queen”. The girl said: ”I do not know what you mean? But if you somehow propose to me with this word, I will be happy to be the wife of such a kind king”. The prince laughed and said: “So I order to decorate all the cities for seven nights and seven days to celebrate and give delicious food to the people from the royal kitchen, because in the cloud of my dream your place was empty and now our cloud of dreams to can enrich each other and form a more complete cloud. The two then got married and for years helped other people build their dream cloud.
Author of the story: Mohsen Fardroo
mohsenfardroo@gmail.com
30 May 2021
