A man who lives in excitement wanders without knowing what happiness is. Whether a person thinks that money is happiness, or possessions are happiness, if he thinks about whether that is happiness, he may doubt himself. If we think about whether happiness can be bought at a price, our imagination and thoughts will go as far as they can go. A short story to understand happiness.
A poor man lived in a town. He had a little land and the
money he could get from farming and the money he could get from daily wage work
was his economy. He was living his life on a meagre income, but he, his wife
and his children were doing well in the fields, living in poverty and dancing
and singing for joy.
Opposite their house lived a rich man who had a cruel heart.
He is always solitary, quiet, with a stern face and does not smile or talk to
anyone. He heard a poor man opposite the house dancing and singing happily with
his family and was always angry with them.
When they are working in the fields, they sing to keep
away from fatigue, and when they come home, the children are happily singing
and dancing. He thought that the dance and singing of these penniless people
was a happy celebration. He thought that we should somehow disrupt their
happiness and keep everyone sad.
One day the rich man went to the poor farmer's house with
some money in his hand. Seeing him you and your family are starving, I have
come to relieve your suffering. He gave him two bundles of money asking him to
take this money. Seeing this, the farmer was very happy and thought that this
was an opportunity to alleviate our poverty.
Yes! He asked why you are giving me so much money?. The rich
man said that you can keep all this money but only on one condition. You must
give me a promise that under no circumstances will you or anyone in your
family sing or make any noise. The rich man said that if you accept only this
one condition, you can have all this money.
From extreme poverty and hardship, the farmer told the rich
man that from now on we will not sing and we will not make any noise and took
the money. The family itself has become a form of sadness, there is money but
no happiness, poverty is gone but laughter is also gone.
For two days the family remained silent with a stern face and
the children were sad that they could not sing and could not be happy.
Only their last son suddenly forgot himself and started
singing. As soon as he sang it was too late and everyone started singing along
with him. Once again the family was filled with happiness and the angry
neighbor heard the singing and came to the farmer's house in anger.
The farmer gave the two bundles of money to the rich man saying "We will not sell our happiness for anyone". No one can buy truth and happiness.
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