Kairos | Stories for Teenagers
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00:00Kairos.
00:07Sometimes things happen in the world of men, things so fantastic and magical that they
00:13become legends.
00:15This legend happened in ancient Greece, in the village of Eurydice, when a youth who
00:22had traveled far, returned.
00:29Mother!
00:32Lysander!
00:35Oh!
00:38My son!
00:41It's so good to be back!
00:46Father!
00:48Oh!
00:50Lysander, my boy!
00:59No, no, no!
01:00You rest for a few days.
01:03Father, I want to be with you in the fields.
01:05Now that I am here, you don't have to work so hard.
01:13The crop is almost ready.
01:15I was thinking, we must plant millets before corn.
01:20Millets grow faster.
01:21That way we could have multiple crops in a year.
01:25Son, Mother Nature has already given us so much.
01:29We have enough.
01:34But...
01:44When I was coming here, I had to look for a place to cross the river by.
01:48Why don't we build boats and some of us can run those boats and take travelers across
01:54as a side business.
01:57We have our fields.
02:00Mother Nature has given us so much.
02:02We have enough.
02:14That night, a strange thing happened.
02:17The sky seemed to split by a glowing shaft of light.
02:21And from within it emerged a being.
02:24Powerful.
02:25Magnificent.
02:32Who are you?
02:34I am Kairos, the bringer of opportunity.
02:38I come and I flash by.
02:40It is up to you to catch me.
02:43How?
02:45How do we catch you, Kairos?
02:48To catch me, you have to look for me.
02:50Recognize me and then seize me.
02:53I can appear anywhere, in any form.
02:56Just remember, change, growth is the way of life.
03:01If you choose to remain where you are, life will leave you behind.
03:08So, if you want to grow, be always on the lookout for me, you people of Eurydice.
03:19Find me. Seize me.
03:27What?
03:30Was I dreaming?
03:34No, it was real.
03:41Many weeks passed by.
03:43The villagers could not shake the feeling that something, something big had happened that night.
03:50And then, one day, a terrible storm broke out.
04:03We must save the crop.
04:09Help, help, everyone.
04:13The villagers worked all day and all night, trying to save their crops.
04:22But alas, a lot of that crop was lost.
04:27What do we do now?
04:29I thought that after being, Kairos came here, something good, something beautiful would happen.
04:37But instead, this happened.
04:44That night, the villagers went to bed miserable.
04:48They couldn't sleep for a long time.
04:53But then Lysander had a dream.
04:57You have to look for me, recognize me, and then seize me.
05:03I can appear anywhere, in any form.
05:06Just remember, change, growth is the way of life.
05:11If you choose to remain where you are, life will leave you behind.
05:16So, if you want to grow, be always on the lookout for me, you people of Eurydice.
05:24Find me, seize me.
05:28You remember what I said.
05:30So why don't you seize me?
05:32I am here, find me.
05:34Don't let me leave, seize me.
05:38Seize me, seize me.
05:44Wait, wait, what?
05:49He's here, how?
05:52A storm and opportunity, how?
06:01Do we remember what Kairos had said?
06:06How does it matter what he said?
06:08He has brought disaster to our village.
06:11Maybe Mother Nature is angry at us.
06:15Or maybe this is Kairos coming to us in the form of a storm.
06:19What do you mean?
06:21Father, if we had grown millets before corn, those millets would have been sold by now.
06:27And we would have been able to make better sheds for our crop.
06:31The storm would not have hurt us so much.
06:33You are right.
06:35But all is not lost.
06:37We can still use the fallen trees to make boats.
06:41Lots of people will now need boats to cross the swollen river and the silt.
06:46The river has brought with it so much silt.
06:49If we can plant vegetables now, we could have a crop later this year.
06:54Oh yes, yes, we could.
07:00But, but where do we get the seeds from?
07:04On my way back here, I had bought a few bags of seeds.
07:08We could use those and plus there are many vegetables that we can easily grow here.
07:13And they don't need seeds.
07:16Of course, we could still turn this around.
07:20We really could.
07:22We are proud of you, Kairos.
07:25Where did you learn all this?
07:30I didn't make my father send me to seed the world for nothing.
07:34I have learned quite a few things on my journey.
07:37So, the villagers seized the opportunity.
07:41Some started making bull boats.
07:43Others planted vegetables in the now rich soil.
07:46By the end of the year, they had more than what they had expected.
07:57With the money, we will build better sheds and get more seeds.
08:03And I am building a little lake that will store the water of the river.
08:09So that we always have plenty of water.
08:12If we had a storm once, we could have had a drought another year.
08:16That is a splendid idea.
08:21So, the villagers continued their simple hard working lives.
08:25But this time with eyes open for opportunities and constructive change.
08:31A few years passed by.
08:35Father, why can't you get me a blue silk rope too?
08:40Because you don't need it.
08:42But you have the money.
08:44Just because we have the money, that does not mean we waste it, okay?
08:49Believe us.
08:53If we thought you needed one more coat, we would have bought it for you.
08:59Then why did you make our village so poor?
09:02Then why did you make our village so rich?
09:05Why did you tell me about Karos? I don't understand at all.
09:13Lysander, Lysander, did you hear?
09:18What?
09:19In the village of Marcellus, there was a terrible quake.
09:23So many houses and even their crops have been destroyed.
09:28My brother lives there. They...
09:31We must help.
09:33Then we have decided.
09:35We will help the villagers of Marcellus by sending boatloads of grain of course at no cost.
09:43And clothes.
09:44Two doctors of our village will go there.
09:47And some of us will go there to help them construct houses.
09:50Taking some money too, right?
09:54Agreed.
09:55But before we help anyone, we must take permission.
10:00Permission?
10:01From whom?
10:03From our children.
10:05What?
10:10How can the children take such import?
10:14What do you want to do?
10:26Now, here is everything you all have wanted.
10:29Toys, clothes, more pocket money.
10:34But there are people in Marcellus who have lost their homes.
10:37They don't have any food, no blankets, no medicines.
10:43Now here is our money.
10:45Where do you think we should spend it?
10:48In that pile or that one?
10:56That one. That one for sure.
11:11Money belongs to everyone.
11:13Just because we have it with us, that does not mean we own all of it.
11:20Money must be shared and used for the good of all.
11:23Remember, if we learn to grow and to share,
11:26Mother Nature has given us all enough.
11:29That is what the legend of Kairos teaches us.
11:33What our prosperity could not teach our children,
11:36you used a disaster to teach it to them.
11:39Kairos must be happy.
11:41The legend of Kairos has been handed down for centuries.
11:45Because indeed, the opportunity to grow,
11:49whether in terms of money, knowledge or wisdom,
11:52comes unannounced.
11:54We must have the ability to look for it,
11:57find it and seize it.