Once a fisherman was
sitting near seashore, under the shadow of a tree smoking his beedi. Suddenly a
rich businessman passing by approached him and enquired as to why he was
sitting under a tree smoking and not working. To this the poor fisherman
replied that he had caught enough fishes for the day.
Hearing this the rich man
got angry and said: Why don’t you catch more fishes instead of sitting in
shadow wasting your time?
Fisherman asked: What would
I do by catching more fishes?
Fisherman: What would I do
then?
Businessman: You could go
fishing in deep waters and catch even more fishes and earn even more money.
Fisherman: What would I do
then?
Businessman: You could buy
many boats and employ many people to work for you and earn even more money.
Fisherman: What would I do
then?
Businessman: You could become
a rich businessman like me.
Fisherman: What would I do
then?
Businessman: You could then
enjoy your life peacefully.
Fisherman: Isn’t that what
I am doing now?
Moral – You don’t need to wait
for tomorrow to be happy and enjoy your life. You don’t even need to be more
rich, more powerful to enjoy life. LIFE is at this moment, enjoy it fully.
As some
great men have said “My riches consist not in extent of my possessions but in
the fewness of my wants”.
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