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The Stupidity of "I WISH": The grass is always greener on the other side.
Paperback
AnimalsEarly ReadersGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Every day, a hardworking donkey watches a flock of sheep grazing peacefully in the green pasture next door. They eat. They play. They rest beneath the trees.
And the donkey begins to wonder:
Why can't my life be like theirs?
The more he watches, the more he wishes. Then, one day, a clever sheep gives him an idea. It sounds simple. It sounds harmless. And it might just change his life forever.
But the donkey is about to discover that what we see from the other side of the fence is never the whole story.
Years later, a young donkey named Lucky arrives on the farm. As the old donkey teaches him about work, patience, and life, Lucky discovers something that makes him see the sheep, the fence, and his own life in an entirely different way.
The Stupidity of I WISH is a heartfelt fable about envy, gratitude, honesty, wise choices, and second chances.
It reminds us that we don't have to stop dreaming of a better life.
But before we wish for someone else's life, perhaps we should ask ourselves:
Do we really know what their life is like?
Because sometimes...
the life we envy isn't the life we think it is.
And sometimes, the greatest gift isn't getting the life we wished for.
It's getting a second chance to understand the life we already have.
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