“Little-I-Am-Me” by Lobe Mira, published by “Topos”, has been translated into many languages, including Greek, English, Persian and Arabic. It is about a small creature with large ears that doesn’t know exactly what type of animal it is.
It lives in meadows amongst brightly coloured flowers and trees and was happy listening to birds singing. It was perfectly contented until it one day it met a frog and everything changed. The frog asked, “who are you, what sort of creature are you?” and the little thing was so taken aback that it simply replied, “I don’t know”. From that day on it no longer drew satisfaction from roaming happily around the meadows, but instead began searching for someone who would tell it what type of creature it was. It began to wander in the forest and would ask every animal it came across “Do I look like you?” “I really want to find out what I am”. It would even go around towns and streets in its dreams, asking the various animals it met “Do I look like you?”
Finally, the little creature thought to itself, “Even though everyone tells me I am nothing, I must be something, because I am Me”.
We sometimes come across people who confuse us. But this story helps us realise our uniqueness and deal more easily with any identity crisis we may have.
*This article has been published in issue #6 of “Migratory Birds” newspaper, which was released as an annex with “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper (Newspaper of the Editors) on January 2018.
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