Reading Notes B

   I enjoyed the origin story of The Man in the Moon. It was a very interesting, short read about how the grass is always greener somewhere else. The man starts as a blacksmith, then begs to be a stone. When he finds he does not like that he asks to be a stone-cutter, then the sun, finally the moon. He does not enjoy being the moon, however, "the wise man" is tired of this man changing mind, and leaves him to be the moon. 

Caption: the man in the moon from istockphoto.com
  
   I enjoyed this short story. It was easy to read and had a critical message to it. I thought it was descriptive without being too wordy, and it got to the point quickly. The overall message was, of course, to not take for granted what you have. There is the good and bad in every situation. The blacksmith had it good, but he did not enjoy the heat, so he went somewhere cool as a stone. Although it was cool where he was as a stone, he was cut by a stone-cutter, and that displeased him. He found the bad in every situation he chose to be in until he was forced to be stuck as the moon. I think that is another important message in this story. You will always be dissatisfied when you look at the glass half-empty.