The cats and the moon

 Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there was a young boy named Měsíc. He had a peaceful soul and a beautiful smile and he was full of energy, always looking for friends. If during the day his presence was appreciated, the problems came at night: in fact, he had such a huge energy that he couldn’t sleep and enlightened all the dark corners of the streets, houses and even the cellars.

Thus it happened that he frightened the mice in the barn, caught the lovers sitted apart in the wood or woke up the babies in their cribs. It became so annoying that even his siblings couldn’t stand him anymore.

Only Kočka, the cat, always seemed to appreciate his company and he followed him wherever he went.

Měsíc became increasingly alone and increasingly sad. He did nothing but hide and ask himself why it was so difficult for others to accept his qualities. He could not figure it out and this distressed him terribly.

Until one day…PUF! He disappeared. Just in front of Kočka’s nose that was sniffing his shoes.

Suddenly everyone in the village started looking for him: << Měsíc!>> << Měsíc, where are you?>> << Měsíc come back!>> But there was nothing to do, Měsíc was scarce.

No one expected, but with each passing day, Měsíc began to be missing to them. The bakers who worked at night couldn’t stay awake without his jokes; the captain of the guards was quite old and shortisighted and couldn’t look beyond his nose and Měsíc had always been helpful; even the lovers found that his absence had lifted a bit of romance to their nights.

In the meanwhile Kočka had not lost his nerve and continued his solitary search. After a fruitless week, behold, he thought he saw shining in a corner, hidden by bushes, Měsíc‘s jacket.

Sure it was! Kočka began to meow loudly and with him all the cats in the neighborhood. Recall by as much noise Měsíc’s mother pushed her way through the forest to reach him.

<<Here you are! Do you know what a fright we got? Didn’t you see how worried we were? Come on, come back home.>>

But Měsíc, although heartened by those words, he did not want to.

<<If I come back now, it will be fine for a while and then everyone will start to be fed up with me!>> <<You should understand, not everybody has your energy. You should try to control yourself a bit>>

<<I have decided>> he said <<I will go far away and I will travel throughout the whole sky, but from time to time I will come back to visit, so you won’t be too sad. And when instead you will be fed up with me, I will go to the other side of the world to play with my new friends>>.

And so it was that Měsíc began his travel through the stars, an eternal wandering that we call month. And every time he disappears, the land subsides, the plants and the seas are relaxing and the children sleep peaceful dreams. And every time he comes back, everybody is happy to see him again and the world is back on life and joy and the lovers embrace themselves a little stronger.

But the most enthusiastic remain the cats, meowing all night long beautiful serenades in the moonlight.