Write an original short story based on the statement, "Laziness is man's
worst enemy."
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Answer:
Lazy bhramin
Explanation:
Long long back, there lived a Brahmin in a small village. He had everything; a beautiful wife, two wonderful children and a vast area of farmland. But, he was very lazy. He'd sleep all day long, and won't work. His wife tried her best to simulate activeness in him but to no avail.
One day, a great sage visited the Brahmin. The Brahmin served the sage and pleased him. The sage offered him a boon, "Say, my child, what you want and I will fulfil your wish."
The lazy Brahmin thought and said, "Get me someone who'd do all my work." The sage granted him the wish and a genie appeared. The Brahmin grinned but the sage warned, "You should have enough work to keep the genie occupied. He shall never be free." The Brahmin nodded and bid adieu to the sage.
"Give me work master," said the genie. "Go the farm and water the crops." And he obeyed. The Brahmin thought that it was no big deal to give orders to the genie. But the genie would return in a few minutes and eagerly ask for a new task.
This cycle repeated and finally there left no undone work. "Give me a work, or I will eat you up!" roared the genie. The Brahmin got terrified! Then his wife asked, "Can I give any task to him?" "Please do,"agreed the Brahmin.
"Genie, go to the dog, Moti and make his tail straight." The genie obeyed and never returned again.
His wife turned to the Brahmin and said, "Now did you understand the importance of working? We should do our own jobs and never rely on anyone else. When we completely depend on others for our work, we always get into trouble. The best help we can do to ourselves is to help ourselves."
And the Brahmin went to work in the field from the next day and lived happily ever after.