Enjoy this Story about life which both entertains and provides valuable life lesson!
An ambitious rat wanted to get married. So, he went to the most powerful human king and asked for his daughter.
‘You are the greatest. I am the best. I want to marry the princess,’ he said.
The King responded by saying that the Sun was mightier than him. The rat then went to the Sun and said the same.
‘But…the cloud is more powerful than me,’ the Sun said.
And so the rat went to the cloud. The cloud explained how the wind was more powerful — for the wind pushed it around.
The ambitious rat went to the wind.
‘I am not as strong as you think Mr. Rat,’ the wind responded and told him how the grass was stronger.
‘For, no matter how hard I try, I can’t blow it away.’
The rat then went to the grass and asked for his daughter. The grass responded:
‘What are you talking about! You are stronger than me. You hide beneath me, cut my roots and kill me. You are better than me, rat!’
The ambitious rat understood the fallacy of his reasoning and married a rat!
This short inspirational story which is a Nepali Folk Tale teaches a valuable life lesson.
Blinded by ambition and greed, we tend to go after that which seems the most lucrative. We forget what we are as individuals in this process. We are all wired different. This is due to our distinct environment and experiences. We are all unique in our own way. Our desires and skills and different. We need to identify them!
Our task is to understand our desires and go after them — all guns blazing. Mastering the skills in the process.
This story is a Nepali folk tale.
