This is a good story in English. In a tiny village, there was a wise old man famous for his advice. A curious young boy wanted to test the old man’s smarts, so he came up with a clever plan using a little bird he would keep hidden in his hands. The boy planned to ask the old man to guess what he was holding and then trick him by asking if the bird was alive or dead. If the old man said it is alive, the boy would end the bird’s life; if he said it is dead, the boy would let it go free, proving the old man wrong. The boy caught a sparrow and went to see the old man, who quickly recognized it as a bird because of the feathers on the boy’s clothes. When the old man was asked if the bird was alive or dead, he wisely said that it all depended on the boy’s choice, pointing out that the bird’s fate was in the boy’s hands. This answer really drove home the idea of personal responsibility and the importance of making choices.