On the eve of the 16th of January in the first year of the Tsardom of Muscovy. A man named Igor Novikov, a merchant, went to the royal capital alongside thousands of the others to witness the auspicious crowing of Ivan the fourth, who due to his capricious nature would one day be known as the Ivan the Terrible. As Igor was listing to Ivan’s pedantic imperial decree, a small thought slowly expanded in his mind and he was not fatuous enough to believe those false words of Ivan. Igor quickly left the overfilled square, however, the crowd was just too exorbitant that it too him hours to finally get out. Late in the evening, Igor reached home at least and even though he was extremely tired from his travels, he couldn’t sleep. Igor realized that people throughout his life have lied and …show more content…
He thanked the old man and rushed towards the way he had shown him. However, unknown to Igor the old man was disingenuous in nature. For thirty years he was wandering and wandering, and the tree never came, and the old man never came. Igor was getting tired, and he himself was getting old, and he said, “What nonsense is this!”
Finally, he decided, “It is better to go back home… enough is enough! For thirty years I have wasted my life in searching the so-called “truth”, and I have not even met the old man who is supposed to show me the way. And only God knows how long that is going to take. It seems to be too complicated; it is better to go home. I was running a good business. I destroyed the business and unnecessarily got into trouble by becoming infatuated with this “truth”.
He came back. On his way back, he passed the same old tree— and he was shocked! This was the tree the old man had described. And he looked under the tree and the old man was there — the same old man, thirty years older and exactly the same as the description in every way. He said, “My God! And asked the old man why did you waste thirty years of my