The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.
"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster." "You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day." So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
Reflection:
The story entitled “The Goose That Laid Golden Egg” is the folly of being over greedy which leads to destruction of the source of benefits to a person. In this story the owner of the goose that lays golden egg is not satisfied with the golden eggs that the goose lays from time to time. He wants to get more gold and way more quickly. This tells us the reality that sometimes we are blinded with the simple facts that we endeavor in our life and sometimes wanting too much or being greedy tends to make us fools. In the hope of getting all that we want at once, which we believe that is there when the reality it isn’t, we became animals and demons of ourselves. In the end, we are deprived to those things we really wanted in the first place. And as the saying goes “All regrets will always come after “. We must not let things which we desire to manipulate us to get and be eager to have that thing. We should always remember that being greedy, never pays......
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.
"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster." "You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day." So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
Reflection:
The story entitled “The Goose That Laid Golden Egg” is the folly of being over greedy which leads to destruction of the source of benefits to a person. In this story the owner of the goose that lays golden egg is not satisfied with the golden eggs that the goose lays from time to time. He wants to get more gold and way more quickly. This tells us the reality that sometimes we are blinded with the simple facts that we endeavor in our life and sometimes wanting too much or being greedy tends to make us fools. In the hope of getting all that we want at once, which we believe that is there when the reality it isn’t, we became animals and demons of ourselves. In the end, we are deprived to those things we really wanted in the first place. And as the saying goes “All regrets will always come after “. We must not let things which we desire to manipulate us to get and be eager to have that thing. We should always remember that being greedy, never pays......