Proverbial Short Stories for Gen X: Can't Let Ancient Wisdom Go Waste!

Proverbs and sayings are short statements of wisdom or advice that are transmitted from generation to generation. Usually the elderly and the experienced made such statements after some firsthand experience which may have taught him or her a lesson. As a precautionary measure – so that their children or grand children so not make the same mistake and regret later in life, they made it into funny parables or fables so that wisdom accumulated through experience does not go waste!

Usually fables make use of animal characters to make it funny and not sound bitter – since ‘truth is always bitter’! But in my stories I have used all human characters so that readers can relate to the stories and maybe understand that life can be a ‘bed of roses’ if led wisely!