A magic forest story - the magic ball

I took my children to the park today and the oldest wanted to go into the magic forest for a story. At that time he also found a rather large bouncy ball that had two different colours on each half. 

One day a small boy found a ball on the shore of the river that had two colours a yellow colour and a green colour. He picked it up and played with it until be became tired and put it in his pocket and brought it home. The boy played with his ball as he grew and had to go to school. One day in class he could not know the answers of a test and said I wish I could know the answers to the test. Then on the yellow side of the ball, it showed him the future and him looking at the answers to the test. 

The boy was so happy and got every answer right. 

as the boy grew he used the magic ball to get every answer right on all his tests and graduated from university with honors. 

Then the man got his first job, but even though the ball would give him answers to a test he could never get his work right and figure out how to do anything hands-on in the real world. The young man grew into a middle-aged man who could not hold down a job. 

One day he took the ball out from the drawer where he kept it in his small one-room apartment and walked back to the river where he got it. 

He looked at the ball and said how did my life become so bad when at first it was going so good. Then on the green side of the ball, it showed him asking for all the answers on his tests and the day he found the ball. The man threw the ball back into the river and that day he got a job as a janitor at a school where he worked for the rest of his life. 

Again years later the ball wound up on the shore of the river as an older man picked it up and he looked at the sky and said " I wonder if it will rain later today" then on the yellow side of the ball it showed the old man sunny blue skies for the rest of the day. 

The old man looked at the ball fascinated by what the ball had just shown him then said: " How could such a magic ball have been simply left here?" 

Then on the green side of the ball it showed the previous owner of the balls life and how hard of a time he had with it.   

the old man thought for a moment of all the things he could do with a magic ball the could show the future and the past and threw it back into the river. 

The end,

Phoenix rise