e No matter what the reactions of the others are, I think your story is nice. I like the moral of it. It really shows that we should be patient. Now for the others that made comments about the poor and suffering. Yes we know that this exists, but reacting angrily to a story that teaches the principle of patiece is total out of context. They are 2 different issues.

Patience and accepting what is happening to you, that you have to suffer for something to become right/fantastic in the end, that is the lesson. The story could have been about going to school and having to study. It is just a different usage of subject. Here it is about a teacup. How it is made, how else would you portray its evolution/creation???

The story is not about it burning etc. But the leson is there PATIENCE.

Now about the suffering in the world, yes we know that it is there, and yes we all should do our utmost to help. And if everybody does that there will be less suffering. But that was not the point of this story. 

Aisha-Taweela