Life's amazing journey has many different things on offer for a person. But one of the most precious things that it gives us all, is experience, the lessons that life teaches us through the highs and lows it makes us undergo. As the month of November comes to an end, I could not but agree more with the idiom "A Bird In Hand Is Better Than Two In The Bush".
I recollect hearing a story about a person who had a hen which laid golden eggs. This oft heard childhood story, a part of Aesop's Fables, goes that the man gradually became rich selling the golden eggs that the hen laid. Then he became ambitious or in other words plain greedy. He was not happy with what he was having. He started expecting more from life than it was giving him at that point of time. Maybe he wanted newer experiences, maybe he wanted to emulate his richer peers, ignoring the others from whom he was in fact much better off, maybe there was family pressure or maybe he thought of enjoying life in the faster lane. Whatever might be the reason, suddenly the thought of two birds in the bush started to look more lucrative for him.
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This illusion made his present miserable because he constantly thought of things that he perceived would accrue to him in the future. He got into a tangle, a tangle in which he looked forward towards the bright perceived future and looked down upon his 'miserable' present. With such cobwebs of the mind, the day was not far when he took a decision, a decision which to him seemed a perfectly logical decision. He decided to kill the golden egg laying hen in the hope that he would get all the eggs that the hen had to offer at one go. He swiftly and without remorse killed the hen.. only to find that in the hope of getting rich quickly in the near future, he had completely destroyed his beautiful present.
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Even from first hand experiences that we all encounter in our day to day life, all of us (members of Blue Caramel not excluded) don't seem to follow the idiom of "A bird in hand is better that two in the bush" and try running after things which we don't have. This is not to say that being fully contented with life is the way out, this in fact leads to our degeneration. What I am trying to emphasize is that in the hope of a better future we should not ruin our present by our actions, just like what the man in the Golden Hen case did....
I recollect hearing a story about a person who had a hen which laid golden eggs. This oft heard childhood story, a part of Aesop's Fables, goes that the man gradually became rich selling the golden eggs that the hen laid. Then he became ambitious or in other words plain greedy. He was not happy with what he was having. He started expecting more from life than it was giving him at that point of time. Maybe he wanted newer experiences, maybe he wanted to emulate his richer peers, ignoring the others from whom he was in fact much better off, maybe there was family pressure or maybe he thought of enjoying life in the faster lane. Whatever might be the reason, suddenly the thought of two birds in the bush started to look more lucrative for him.
This illusion made his present miserable because he constantly thought of things that he perceived would accrue to him in the future. He got into a tangle, a tangle in which he looked forward towards the bright perceived future and looked down upon his 'miserable' present. With such cobwebs of the mind, the day was not far when he took a decision, a decision which to him seemed a perfectly logical decision. He decided to kill the golden egg laying hen in the hope that he would get all the eggs that the hen had to offer at one go. He swiftly and without remorse killed the hen.. only to find that in the hope of getting rich quickly in the near future, he had completely destroyed his beautiful present.
Even from first hand experiences that we all encounter in our day to day life, all of us (members of Blue Caramel not excluded) don't seem to follow the idiom of "A bird in hand is better that two in the bush" and try running after things which we don't have. This is not to say that being fully contented with life is the way out, this in fact leads to our degeneration. What I am trying to emphasize is that in the hope of a better future we should not ruin our present by our actions, just like what the man in the Golden Hen case did....
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