A Story of the King and 4 Wives

Once upon a time in the kingdom far far away, there was a king that is already bed ridden and waiting for his death, he was afraid to die alone that's why he encourage his wives to accompany him to the afterlife so that he won't feel lonely. He called his 4th wife, the king loves her do much to the point that he gives expensive things to her, diamonds, jewelries and different accessories, the king loves him so much to the point that he pour everything to his 4th wife however when the king asked him if she is willing to accompany him to the afterlife, the 4th wife said, "sorry I can't grant your wish", after that the 4th wife run away and left the king, the king felt sad about if since after everything he done to his 4th wife still she doesn't want to accompany him in afterlife.

After that he called his 3rd wife, the king also loved his 3rd wife, the third one is special to him that the king always bring his 3rd wife in every occasion which there are visitors around, the king showed how beautiful his 3rd wife is, however when the king asked his 3rd wife if she is willing to accompany him to afterlife, the 3rd wife refused and said that she can't do it, once the king die, she will be remarry. The king felt sad about it, then he called his 2nd wife which always at his side no matter what situation is, his 2nd wife is always there to support him and give his wants but when he asked his 2nd wife if she's willing to accompany him to after life, the 2nd wife refused and said that she can't do it, but she is willing to arrange and attend the funeral of the king.

The king felt sad about it, he was wondering why no one wants to accompany him to afterlife despite all the thing he done to them. Then the first wife approached him and said that she's willing to accompany the king to afterlife, the king cried and feel regret, the 1st wife was given least attention. The moral of this story is not all people or things can accompany us in after life. The 4th wife resembles our body, we decorate our body, attached decorations on it to make it beautiful however our body is a physical entity that can't accompany us in afterlife. No matter what we will do our body will decompose once we perish on this world. The third wife symbolized our possession, we really loves to flex our possessions to other people, those belongings like watches, jewelry, money, gadgets.

But once we die we can't bring it on after life, the 3rd wife said that if the king die, she will remarry other man, it means that those possessions will be owned by other people. The 2nd wife resembles our family and friends, they are always there to support us and give our needs but they can't accompany us in after life. The only thing they can do when we die is to arrange and mourn at our funeral. The 1st wife resembles our soul, it is the only one who will accompany us in afterlife and us humans gives less attention to it. We neglect our soul and focus on material thing, we prefer to take care our possessions rather than our soul that's why it get weaken and reached its final point.

All I want to say is, as we have still life on this planet, we must cherish and protect our soul, there's nothing wrong in giving attention to material things but we shouldn't forget the importance of our soul. We have still time in this world to appreciate more things in life cause we can't predict where or when will death happen, we must spend our time with our family, give importance to people around us, hang out with our friends and enjoy life. We have limited time in this world and we must spend it in useful ways.

This will be the end of this story, I hope you've learned something about it honestly I realized something when I watched this while I'm scrolling on Facebook. This story proved that no matter how rich we are, no matter what possession we have, we can't bring it on our afterlife. For me, it's better to become poor but having lots of friends and enjoyed beautiful things in life, rather than being a rich but with lonely life and few friends.