Adi Momo

     In a village there was a father and a son. The father liked to write poems and sing all the time. The rest of the villagers didn't like the father because they all worked very hard and they thought he was just lazy. So the father and the son were kicked out of the village. One day all the villagers started to get scared. They said, "Oh no, Adi Momo is coming, Adi Momo is coming!" The son asked the father, "Adi Momo?"

     The father patiently explained that Adi Momo was a man who everyone thinks is very mean and violent. "As a child his parents weren't nice to him. They would tell him mean things like he isn't a good boy and he'll never do anything good. He came to believe what his parents had told him and he became a very cruel person. Now whenever he comes around he steals from the villagers and kicks puppies and acts really mean to everyone." So soon Adi Momo was coming close to the village and where the father and son were outside the village. When Adi Momo came right to where the father and son were they both got a little afraid.

     Then all of the sudden the father started singing. He started singing Adi Momo's name to a tune, "Adi Momo, Adi Momo, Adi Momo, Momo, Momo, Momo...." No one had ever talked to Adi Momo with kindness before. Adi Momo stopped. Slowly he started moving with the music. The son joined the father in singing, "Adi Momo, Adi Momo..." Adi Momo's hands let go of their fists. He did something no one had ever seen him do before..... he smiled. From that day forward Adi Momo slowly started to change. People started being nice to him and he started being nice back. He started helping people with their work cleaning stuff and farming. Now in that village kids say his name, not out of fear like they used to, but singing out of friendship. Who would not want to be treated with kindness?