Monday, July 11, 2011

Negligence has its own reward

                         Negligence has its own reward
Long ago, there was a beggar. He was leading a poor life. He used to beg the people to give alms to him. Some people are scolding him also for creating nuisance. But he didnt know any other work to do. So he continued in his profession without any other way out.
Once he was begging and was getting scolding by people. This was seen by King who was passing by. He pitied about begger. He  gave a container to him and said him to use it. Begger thought there must be jewels inside the container. But to his dismay, there was nothing.
He thought he is ill-fated. He continued begging . Again King came in that way and saw the begger begging. He was surprised. He asked begger why is he still begging? Begger replied the container given by King is not of any use to him.
Then King said its not the ordinary container. It has the power to convert anything to gold if touched by it, He asked the begger didnt he try to test it? But begger was not there. When he heard King's saying, due to lots of happiness he had a heart attack. He was no more. Thus his negligence costed his own life.

1 comment:

  1. okay, but not fully convincing - unless the begger had heart-complaints before !

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