The Fight with the Fate

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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. " - Henry Ford

Once, a small village farmer had the misfortune of owing a massive sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender become vintage, single and fancied of marrying the farmer’s lovely daughter. One day the farmer went to the moneylender to ask him for a few greater time to return the loan. The moneylender pretended to be furious for some time and then proposed a good deal. He stated that if the farmer might not repay his debt, he might be punished or he had an choice to let the moneylender marry his daughter and all his debt would be waived.

Both the farmer and his daughter have been horrified through the inspiration. There turned into no way the farmer ought to pay back the money quickly and he did now not need his lovely daughter to marry the vintage and cruel cash lender.

The cunning moneylender advised that they allow the windfall determine the problem. In an try to persuade the farmer to simply accept his deal, the moneylender made an attractive condition in determining the fate of the daddy and daughter. He might preserve a black and a white pebble in a bag. The girl then needed to pick out a pebble that could determine her destiny. If she picked the black pebble, she might have to marry the moneylender and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she did not need to marry the moneylender and her father’s debt could nevertheless be forgiven. If she refuses t select the pebble, the farmer would be thrown into prison.

They had been standing on a direction scattered with pebbles. The moneylender even known as the nearby villagers to witness the event, in order that no party could walk faraway from their words. The moneylender bent over, picked two pebbles and stored them in a money bag. The sharp-eyed lady observed that he had picked two black pebbles instead of a black and a white. He then requested the lady to pick a pebble from the bag.

The girl was stressed approximately what to do. She knew that she become being cheated by the moneylender. She idea for some time after which kept her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without searching or displaying it to all people, she fumbled and allow it fall into the pebble-strewn path in which it were given lost some of the other pebbles.

“ Oh, I am sorry, how clumsy of me”, she stated. “ But in no way mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, we are able to know which pebble I picked.”

The moneylender dared no longer admit his dishonesty in the front of the villagers. The black pebble in the bag made it seem like the woman had chosen the white pebble. She did not need to marry the old moneylender and her father‘s debt turned into waived. The villagers were there to witness the whole occasion which made the moneylender maintain his phrases.

The girl changed a reputedly impossible situation into a really wonderful one.

"There is always a manner out of problems, don’t give up your hopes and maintain trying to look for solutions."

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