I will tell you a story, a story which you have heard hundred times in your childhood. But this is the remake of the story (Like "aag" for "sholay" ). The story is about two friends, a hare and a tortoise. Hare was smart, intelligent, hard working but he has a jealous feeling towards the tortoise. On the other hand, tortoise was mediocre and OK kind of chap. Both were living life in their own way.
One day the hare came to tortoise and made a challenge that they will be running from Samoa to Vanuatu. So the day was fixed and they started their journey. Hare ran fast, his only aim was to reach the goal first. He ran harder, he got stressed and got blood pressure problem. Then he decided to take rest. He thought he should sleep for sometime and then move forward. So he slept. Tortoise on the otherhand started his journey slowly he saw the islands, the beauty of the beach, the mountain, the river, the flower. Slowly he reached there where hare was sleeping, he woke him up and said "hey dude! you are sleeping, you don't want to win". The hare woke up immediately and ran with full speed. This time also he was in full stress and only thing running in his mind was winning. In the mean time he got mild heart stroke, so he decided to take rest for some moment.
On the other side, the tortoise was covering the distance slowly, enjoying life, made new freinds, girl friend, married her and took her along with him. So they reached the place where hare was sleeping. He went there and woke him up and introduced with her wife. Hare felt quite frustated and ran with full speed to complete the reace, as and when he reache Vanautu, his heart was pounding and he got a big heart stroke and he died there only. Slowly the couple reached there and saw his friend dead. The tortoise felt bad and burried his old friend there only lived his life happily.
One day the hare came to tortoise and made a challenge that they will be running from Samoa to Vanuatu. So the day was fixed and they started their journey. Hare ran fast, his only aim was to reach the goal first. He ran harder, he got stressed and got blood pressure problem. Then he decided to take rest. He thought he should sleep for sometime and then move forward. So he slept. Tortoise on the otherhand started his journey slowly he saw the islands, the beauty of the beach, the mountain, the river, the flower. Slowly he reached there where hare was sleeping, he woke him up and said "hey dude! you are sleeping, you don't want to win". The hare woke up immediately and ran with full speed. This time also he was in full stress and only thing running in his mind was winning. In the mean time he got mild heart stroke, so he decided to take rest for some moment.
On the other side, the tortoise was covering the distance slowly, enjoying life, made new freinds, girl friend, married her and took her along with him. So they reached the place where hare was sleeping. He went there and woke him up and introduced with her wife. Hare felt quite frustated and ran with full speed to complete the reace, as and when he reache Vanautu, his heart was pounding and he got a big heart stroke and he died there only. Slowly the couple reached there and saw his friend dead. The tortoise felt bad and burried his old friend there only lived his life happily.
How do you like the story?
2 comments:
Great story! Corporate life is almost similar to running, getting tiered, getting frustrated and running to last breath, leaving behind all relations, all enjoyment of life, just meeting targets and trying to acheive those goals which can least be classified as a real goal of life.
And above all, getting happiness or unhappiness not by his or her own success but by success or failure of others.
Tortoise shows a very genuine attitude, working hard to his capacities, helping his friend motivating and energising, not taking advantage of someones ignorance or failure.
This is what i could make out about the moral of this story.
Do let me know how much it deviates from your perspective.
Santosh Sharma
great that u gave the moral of the story. I wont say ppl in corporate culture do not enjoy rather their way of enjoyment differs.
During my school days, whenever i used to go for giving my hostel fees, I always used to read loud the saying which used to hang just behind the bursar's chair, which says "Man looses his health and gain lots of money, then he looses the money to gain the health".
So keep working but keep a good track of ur health.
enjoy life and have lots of fun :)
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