Greed-A-Curse

Once upon a time there lived a cloth merchant in a village with his wife and two children. They were indeed quite well-off. They had a beautiful goose which laid an egg every day.It was not an ordinary egg,rather,a golden egg.But the man was not satisfied with what he used to get daily.He was a get rich-trice kind of a person.

The man wanted to get all the golden eggs from his goose at one single go.So,one day he thought hard and at last clicked upon a plan. He decided to kill the Goose and get all the eggs together.

So, the next day when the goose laid a golden egg, the man caught hold of it,took a sharp knife, chopped off its neck and cut its body open. There was nothing but blood all around and no trace of any egg at all.He was highly grieved because now he would not get even one single egg.

His life was going on smoothly with one egg a day but now, he himself made his life miserable.The out come of his greed was that he started becoming poorer & poorer day by day and ultimately became a pauper. How jinxed and how much foolish he was.

So,the moral of the story is one who desires more,looses all. One should remain satisfied with what one gets.