by FlipMode » September 5th, 2011, 5:46 pm
There once was a small boy, aged 8 who lived in a small house in a countryside which was not financially wealthy. Every morning he would have to get up early, and help out with the chores.
Every day he would get up earlier by 30 minutes, and sit on the front porch of the old wooden house, he would look into the distance at a house across the fields, a house with golden shiny windows. "If they can afford gold windows, they must have a lot of other nice things too!" He would think to himself each day, while his mind raced around at the exciting appliances that they probably owned.
"One day when I am older, I am going to see this magnificent house."
Two years later, the boy is now 10 and his father allows him to play out further than the field in front of their house.
He rides his bike as fast as his legs will take him over the field, "This is it I am finally going to see this magnificent house!" He said to himself as he darted across the field.
When he arrived at the house, to his surprise it was a wooden house, with broken fences, cobwebs, and litter scattering the floors. No golden windows but sheets of plastic. Refusing to believe this, he knocks on the rickety door. And a boy 8 years of age opens the door.
"H-hello, have you seen a house, a big house with golden windows? I want to find it" he asks.
To his surprise the 8 year old buy turns his head, and points across the field. And as they look back from where the boy had came from, there stood his house, big and with shiny windows, reflecting the gold of the sun.
Moral - Sometimes everything you want, is already right in front of you. even if you just do not know it.
I will never forget that story, its pretty great =)
Also - "Sometimes it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubts."