In the enf of Janyary or beginning of February 2021 when we, me and my 12 years old apricot poodle Banjo, had just less than a week before moved from Savonlinna to Espoo, I once woke up 4 a.m. in the morning, my poodle seeming to say that I ought to write a children's book. But I do not have children, so my poodle told the story and I wrote it down :
Here is my traslation of it (3rd of April 2024, over three years after my poodle was killed). The words are aimed for children, and the expressions are meant to be on a general level, wisdom of life about getting friends and being happy.
" Peetu and Old Man Rabbit
If I would have liked to give you a kiss, you would have obstructed it.
But if you had thought of me as cute, you would have said: "maybe this once".
But if you woukd have been ill, you would have rejoiced about it.
But then you would have fallen ill more, since I would have been more ill than you.
2. If you were old, you would like me.
If you would be middle-aged, you would think that such life was when you were a child.
But if you would be young, you would think, "what are you trying to do?".
So an old one is the best friend for a child, like family members living in different rooms.
3. But an elderly person does not have strenght, since when he does something, he thinks that it is either thise way or that way, and those are both boringly familuar options to him.
And so he lacks the fascination of the basic level, and so his eyes are not always interested, and so there comes mistakes in the muddle of good quality. "
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2.2.2021 I saw in the morning a figure lije a big dog or maybe a wolf galloping sliwly across the tsnowy town street, and right afterwards I composed my memory of it: