Reading Notes: The Man in the Moon, Part A

• Begins with a Blacksmith
• Does not want to be one anymore because it's too warm so he wants to be a stone on a mountain because it is cool & the wind blows
• Powerful man changes him into a stone
• Stone-cutter appears & takes the blacksmith turned stone because it's what he wanted & starts cutting
• It hurts so he doesn't want to be a stone anymore, but a stone-cutter.
• He became a stone-cutter but he got tired & his feet hurt, he whimpered & decided to be a sun instead
• He changed into the sun, but it's warmer than all the previous things he was before so he asked to be the moon, for it looked cool
• He became the moon; because the sun still shined on him he was warmer than the sun & asked to go back to being a blacksmith, since that is the best life.
• The wise-man was tired of him changing so he left him as the moon because that is the last he chose

(Man/mask hidden within the Moon.  Pixabay.)

This was short, but enjoyable.  This is a story of a man who doesn't enjoy what he does and is always changing, not appreciating what he has, so karma reaches it's stopping point where he suffers for the rest of his life.  

I can recreate the jobs for the man and rather than just jobs and objects, he can be animals too. 

There can be more with the wise-man as the wise-man can be God?  Or they can both have powers so he can be his Father or even a homeschool Teacher of all things.  

Rather than leaving him as the moon, there are prices that the wise man offers the young man for changing into each profession or being.  Those prices are such, not being able to speak, not being able to see or even hear.  He will still consider some of the options and learn his lesson through that.

The wise-man reminds me of a dark-one: Rumplestiltskin from "Once Upon A Time."  

Though he is a moon in the end, he can still offer to speak and only show his face whenever he is in the night sky, because the sun is so hot on him, he will sleep in the day.  

He will conjure up magic to try and change him back or cry a song in the night for those to hear him sing.  

He doesn't have to be alone in this, rather than just the wise-man and the blacksmith, he can have a family that he leaves behind.  Or a best friend that tries to talk him out of changing and in the end he helps him go back to being human, but he sacrifices much for his dear friend.  Or it can be a she, because there is an unrequited love as well.

1. There may be too many elements...starting off with him working at the shop with a friend of his who is his coworker.  They work together rather than for another shop.  He complains and complains, the friend offers him someone they know that can help him change.  Though given the consequences by the friend, he decides to go anyway.
2. It takes on from there as he changes and changes, other things unravel with his friend as well, seeing/hearing of the changes. 
3. Battle can ensure for the friend brought him in, he/she will take him out of it...

Bibliography: Laos Folk-Lore: The Man in the Moon by Katherine Neville Fleeson