A good story on moral no pain no gain
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Once there was an ant. She lived in a field. She loved to work. She never wasted even a single minute. A cricket lived near its hole. They were friends. The cricket was lazy. In the months of summer, it sang and made merry. It did not store food for winter.
It was careless. Being a good friend, the ant, very often, used to advise the cricket to improve its habits. But it didn't pay any heed. The ant was not lazy and had worked day and night. She had grains for winters. In winters, the ground was covered with snow. It was not at all possible to go out and search for anything to eat. The cricket had nothing to eat. The ant had sufficient grain to eat.
The cricket went to the ant to borrow some grain. The ant asked it, what it had been doing during summer ? The cricket replied that it sang and made merry during summer. The ant replied, “If you sang the summer away, you should dance away in the winter.”
Moral : ’No pains, no gains.’
Its a a very famous story
Once there was a rich farmer. He had a big farm. He worked on his farm day and night. All his money had been earned by hard work. He lived in a nice house on the farm with his only son.
Now even though the farmer was a hard working man, his son was very lazy and ignorant. He did not help his father. He spent his time playing with his friends and sleeping. The son grew up, and the farmer became old.
The farmer was now worried about his son. He decided on a plan. One day he called his son and told him that he wanted to take a break from his work. He wished to take a long vacation, traveling the world for two years.
He handed over the responsibility of the farm to his son and asked him to work hard and keep the farm going. The son agreed.
After the father left, son went to the farm. But he had no clue about farm work. He was not used to working, so he got tired very quickly. In a few days he got fed up and soon started his old routine. Just beside this farm lived another hard working farmer family. They had a very small farm. One day this neighbor approached the son and proposed a business plan.
The neighbor said that, he and his family would work in the lazy son’s farm. The son need not do any work at all. After the harvest each partner will get half the crop.
The son thought that he had nothing to loose, and everything to gain in this deal. He happily agreed to the business partnership.
The neighbor then asked the son if he wanted the top half or the bottom half of the crop. Ignorant that he was, the son chose the top half, thinking that the tops of plants are the useful parts. The neighbor agreed. The son patted himself for being so clever, and went to party with his friends. The neighbor and his family could be seen working hard in the field, plowing, planting and watering the plants, while the son slept. When the crop was harvested the neighbor called the son to take his half share. There it was.
The top parts of potatoes, onions, carrots and beet plants. The neighbor had the lower portions. Son stared in disbelief. He knew he had been tricked. He told the neighbor angrily to plant the field one more time.
And this time he would take the bottom of the plants.
The neighbor agreed. When the next crop was harvested he called the son again to take his share. There it was. The bottom roots of Cabbages, broccoli, spinach and tomatoes.
The neighbor had the top parts. The son was steaming mad. He had been tricked again. He told the neighbor that next time he wanted both the top and bottom parts. The neighbor agreed.
When the crop was harvested once again he called the son to pick his share. And there it was. The top leaves and bottom roots of corn and sugarcanes. The middle portion of corn cobs and sugar canes belonged to the neighbor. He had been tricked one more time.
However by now the son had learnt his lesson. “No pain no gain.” He had seen the neighbor’s family working hard in the fields and earning the fruit of their labor. He had also seen how his laziness and ignorance had hurt him. He decided to stand on his feet, work hard and make his father proud. And that is exactly what he did.