Page 9 - Ugly Unicorn

They would go up to a group and say something like, ‘Did you hear about what the big gray horse did yesterday.’ If the others looked interested, the unicorn would proceed to tell about what the big gray did, even if it was none of the unicorn’s business and was hurtful.”
“When the ancient horses noticed one of the young horses start gossiping or other hurtful behaviors, like telling the other young horses ‘Let’s not play with so-in-so today,’ they would try to correct them. But often that did not work and they would wait and act ugly when the disapproving older horses were
not around.”
“This went on for many generations. The ancient horses could not figure out how to stop it or to get the unicorns to change their behavior. Then one fateful year, the horses elected Great Gray as their leader.
Great Gray was the largest of the ancient horses and possibly one of the wisest. He was respected by all the horses although he had one great sadness.” “What was the sadness?” I asked.
The leader shook his head very slowly and looked very sad as he said, “Great Gray’s daughter was a unicorn. He had tried everything to get her to stop gossiping, being manipulative and ugly to others. Nothing had worked and now she was a full grown unicorn.”
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