Why The Watermelon Grows On The Ground

One day mother nature called all the fruits for a meeting. All the fruits are gathered on a rock in outer space. The day was pleasant and the breeze was gentle. It seemed that nature was in the mood of surprising them all with some gifts. As they waited for the meeting to begin, all the fruits were chattering softly, trying to guess what the meeting was for.

Just then mother nature finally announced the surprise by saying, "my lovely fruits, today I am going to take you to your home. You will now grow over there. Today I am going to introduce you to the Earth. 

All the fruits were really excited to know this. They were thrilled. Some of them started dancing with joy and started yelling. "Yaaay! We are going to go home. We are going to go home. We will get bigger and larger… we will grow there. " Out of all the fruits, Watermelon was the most excited. He was dancing his heart out… smiling all the way. 

Watermelon was so excited that he started singing… "la la la….laaaaaa la la… let's go .. let's go...and see our new home… our dream home...our sweet home."(singing)

Mother nature made groups of all the fruits. In the first group, she asked mango, chickoo, grapes, and watermelon to join her. All four of them wished goodbye to their other fruit friends and started moving towards their new home.

Mother nature introduced them to Earth. She looked at these fruits with a smile and welcomed them warmly. She said. "Go ahead and pick your home on my land." All the fruits were so happy to know this. Mango started hopping and jumping, climbed up a tree, and started hanging on its branch. 

Chickoo liked what the mango was doing and even Chickoo started climbing another tree which was a little smaller..tuuk tuuk tuuk tuuk… Then came the turn of those juicy sweet-sour grapes. They started climbing the creepers in a nearby vineyard. 

The only one that was left without a home was our poor little watermelon. It was still confusing, looking around and thinking…" where shall I go, where shall I go? Shall I just get tangled around a trunk as the grapes did? Or shall I climb up a tall tree and start hanging the way mango and chickoo did? This small tree also looks good for me."

The small tree was terrified to see a watermelon looking towards it. It yelled immediately. "No no no.. don't even think about it. Just look at me.. I am a tiny tinee winee shrub….and you are around a huge, heavy watermelon. I will never be able to lift your weight." 

But the watermelon did not listen to him, and climbed up one of the tiny branches of that tree.

The moment it climbed up, the poor branch bent because of watermelon's weight...all the way to the ground. The branch was in a lot of pain and started pleading to watermelon. "Please please leave me. Just look at me.. Look what you've done to me." Watermelon realized this and it stepped down from that tiny branch of the small tree. 

Watermelon realized that no tree will be ready to become a home for him. All trees would find him round and heavy and bulky. He was so upset that he started crying. Tears were rolling down his round face. 

Suddenly he heard a voice calling out to him. "My dear, please stop crying. Wipe your tears and come, sit on my lap and make yourself comfortable. You will be able to grow here, live here and be happy here." When the watermelon looked around to find whose voice was that, he was surprised. It was none other than the earth herself. She offered her lap to the watermelon as its home. Watermelon was more than happy to know this. 

Ever since that day, watermelons have been growing on the earth, close to the ground, in its lap. So, finally, the watermelon found its own home.