* No point using limited life to chase unlimited money.
* No point earning so much money you cannot live to spend it.
* Money is not yours until you spend it.
* When you are young, you use your health to chase your wealth;when you are old, you use your wealth to buy back your health. Difference is that, it is too late.
* How happy a man is, is not how much he has but how little he needs.
* No point working so hard to provide for the people you have no time to spend with.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
The Snake, The Farmer, and The Heron
Have you ever heard that Life is not fair (LINF for short). Here's another story that reflects the real cruel life. Either you gonna accept it or not, it's still gonna come to you anyway. Embrace yourself!
A snake chased by hunters asked a farmer to save its life. To hide it from its pursuers, the farmer squatted and let the snake crawl into his belly. But when the danger had passed and the farmer asked the snake to come out, the snake refused. It was warm and safe inside. On his way home, the man saw a heron and went up to him and whispered what had happened. The heron told him to squat and strain to eject the snake. When the snake snuck its head out, the heron caught it, pulled it out, and killed it. The farmer was worried that the snake’s poison might still be inside him, and the heron told him that the cure for snake poison was to cook and eat six white fowl.
Heron (Pic source : Wikipedia)
“You’re a white fowl,” said the farmer. “You’ll do for a start.” He grabbed the heron, put it in a bag, and carried it home, where he hung it up while he told his wife what had happened.
“I’m surprised at you,” said the wife. ”The bird does you a kindness, rids you of the evil in your belly, saves your life in fact, yet you catch it and talk of killing it.” She immediately released the heron, and it flew away. But on its way out, it gouged out her eyes.
Moral: When you see water flowing uphill, it means that someone is repaying a kindness.
African Folk Tale
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