Maya Makes a Friend

(Here is The Audio Version by Audio Acrobat:)

Once upon a time there was a Moose named Maya.

Maya the Moose was the kind of moose who kept to herself. She didn’t leave her home in the forest very often, and when she did she was sure to return very quickly. Maya didn’t spend too much time with the other forest animals, because she didn’t think that they understood her. When she was a younger moose, she tried to join in the Forest Animal’s Fun Day and didn’t like it very much. The other forest animals liked to joke around and have fun chasing each other, but Maya didn’t understand their jokes, and she didn’t feel like she was having any fun. Now Maya just stayed at her home in the forest, looking outside and wishing she had friends she could joke and play with. Maya had spent so much time keeping to herself that she was starting to get lonely.

Now that Maya was a little bit older she found that the she was changing.

Sometimes when she was at home alone wishing for friends, she would start thinking about the other animals, and the Fun Day from when she was younger. Maya noticed that when she thought about the other forest animals and their jokes, it would make her feel happy inside. Even though she didn’t feel like she was having fun on that day, the memories that she had from then were able to put a smile on her face. Maya decided that even though she didn’t understand their jokes, the other forest animals were very nice and fun to be around and she felt like it was important to make some new friends. Besides, she was getting pretty bored of looking outside alone every day!

The Forest Animal’s Fun Day was coming up and so Maya felt like that would be the perfect day to make some new friends.

Maya still felt a little unsure about how things would go, and whether or not she would be able to make any new friends at all. She decided to spend time with the other animals anyway and just see what would happen. Maya thought to herself “If I don’t make any new friends at the Forest Animal’s Fun Day, I will still have zero friends and nothing will change. But if I make at least one new friend at the Fun Day, then everything will change!” Maya was really excited to go to the Forest Animal’s Fun Day, and a little nervous too.

When the day came, Maya woke up extra early to get ready for the fun.

When she arrived at the event it was packed with animals from across the forest all gathered together to have some fun. There were many activities and a lot more animals at the Fun Day then there had been when she was younger. Once again Maya was really excited and a little nervous too.

Maya stayed focused on her mission to make a friend and have fun.

She tried to meet as many other animals as she could, and spent a lot of time listening to their jokes and playing games together. Maya realized that the more time that she spent with the other animals, the more that she understood the jokes that they were telling. After a while she started telling the other animals some jokes of her own and they thought that she was really funny! She had such a good time that she could hardly stand it, and she even met a nice moose who lived near her home on the other side of the forest.

Maya made quiet a few friends when she decided to take a chance and go to the Forest Animal’s Fun Day.

She was glad that she went because everything did wind up changing for her after that day. She understood that having friends was important to how she felt on the inside, and that giving others a chance to be a friend was the first step to making a friend. Maya made it a point to go to the Forest Animal’s Fun Day every time, so her days of looking outside feeling lonely were over. She made more friends then she could count, and met lots of forest animals from her side of the forest. Maya learned lots of jokes, and started a trend of telling stories at Fun Day too.

Maya has been a happy moose ever since she changed her mind about keeping to herself.

Maya realized that by letting herself be a good friend to the other forest animals, she had finally found her best friend in the whole wide world which was her self.

The End.

This work is licensed by Julie Phineas
under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
3.0 United States License.

About the Author: Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her and view her photos by visiting her page on MySpace.