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This is an interesting story about a Kingdom of Fools. The king and his minister did not have any brains. Once they ordered that night should be considered day and vice-versa. They ordered that the people should keep awake at night and sleep during the day.
One day a guru and’his disciple visited the kingdom. To their utter surprise the city looked deserted during the day time and by evening the shops opened and they purchased food to eat. The disciple felt happy at the cheap rate eatable commodities and decided to stay back, while the guru rejected the idea.
An incident almost saved the kingdom. One day a thief entered the house of a merchant but before he could steal anything the wall fell,on him and he died. The brother of the thief complained to the king against the merchant whose weak-wall had taken that life of his poor brother. Ultimately the merchant blamed the mason, the mason blamed the dancing girl, the dancing girl blamed the goldsmith and the goldsmith blamed the family of the merchant. It was decided that merchant should be executed as he had inherited all his father’s wealth as well as his sins. The merchant was fat and the stake was meant to execute very thin people.
As a result a new stake was built to execute the merchant but it was too big, therefore, that king ordered that a fat man should be executed first. The king’s men brought the disciple to be executed.
Seeing in his vision, the guru came to the rescue of his disciple. He said to the king that this stake is new therefore he wants that himself should be executed first. The king asked the reason. The guru said that the person who is executed first on this holy stake, will reborn as a king of this kingdom. Now the king wished to die first in order to become king again. Therefore the foolish king was executed and the guru through his wisdom saved his disciple.
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This write up about Maria Sharapova inspires us to remain determined and make sacrifices in order to fulfil our dreams. On 22 August 2005, Maria became the top seeded player in the world women’s tennis player rankings. She made great sacrifices to achieve her goal.
At the tender age of nine, she left her home in Siberia, Russia to get training in tennis. She went to Florida in USA with her father. Maria suffered a painful separation from her mother for a period of two years. She could not see her father too as he remained busy working, arranging funds for all her needs. She was bullied by her seniors and being a foreigner, she had to suffer all that patiently. Maria did not feel depressed, rather she was prepared for greater insults too in order to achieve her aim.
Her mantra for success is to work hard and face the toughest competition. Although she was trained in the US, she considers herself to be a Russian and is wiling to represent Russia at the Olympics too. Her favourite hobbies are fashion, singing and dancing. She loves reading novels written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Her love for fashionable evening gowns is in contrast to her liking for pancakes with chocolate spread and orange flavoured aerated drinks. The monetary gains and the fame incurred by Maria are well deserved.