A Story I Was Told By My Grandparents

To me, my grand Pa has told me countless stories which has great meaning and has impacted knowledge into my life.

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When I was still a kid, my grandpa once told a great story which goes thus:

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Once upon a time, there live a couple who were wretched and cannot fend for themselves. They have three children out of which are just staying at home without doing anything. The wife on the other hand has nothing to do other than going to the farm to fetch firewood to sell. The villagers do not buy things from them, and they were like rejected.

At a time, they were rejected for what they do not do, and the villagers refused to attend to them in terms of rendering them alms. The man is a great fisherman who loves fishing to the core. He always goes to the stream to catch fish with a net, but many times he does come back home with nothing (empty-handed).

Everyone in the village has written the family off by saying that there is nothing they can do to progress in life. So, one faithful day, he went to the river for fishing after lots of trials, all efforts were proven abortive, but he only caught a small catfish. Something told him not to kill the fish. He began the journey home from the stream where he heard a voice saying, please...please....please...take me back to the stream. At a time, he was confused and tried to look around to see who was talking, but he could not find anyone around. He began his journey and suddenly heard the same voice which came directly from his bag that the fish contained. He opened the bag and once again the fish told him to return it to where he took it from.

The fish said, if you can take me back, definitely I will bless you and I will give you whatever you deserve in life. On hearing those words, he decided to take the fish back. The fish told him that, he can be coming to make any forms of requests he may need or that may be difficult for him. Before he released the fish, he made one demand that if true, what he said are true. He demanded that he was not having a house and that the fish should give him a house of his own before he gets home. The fish replied, it has been done and truly when he got home, he saw the wife and children in the house. The children and his wife were surprised, but he told them all that happened.

Now money has come, and the woman who was so pathetic became something else. He told the husband that, he should go back to the fish and demand that for her to have her clothes to wear, which the man did and indeed it was done. The woman, again, told the husband to go back to meet the fish and demand the fish to hive them, guards, since they have their house and many things are in the house to kid thieves penetrating their house. The man again went, and his wish was granted.

That was not enough, the woman once again told the husband that since they are the richest in the community, she wanted to become the queen of their Community. Initially, the husband felt reluctant because a king is a nice man, and he wouldn't do anything to hurt the king's feelings. The wife persuaded him, and he finally agreed to go to request the fish. When he got there, he related the issue with the fish, the fish said to the man you are a greedy man you are someone who is not grateful and someone wicked. So, with this, the fish seized everything that has been given to him, and they went back to the same condition they were.

LESSON:

- Never look down on someone because you never know what will happen in the next minute.

- Greed. We should not be greedy after God has placed us. God has given us what is needed, why then do we want to make people suffer?

- Be contented with what you have. Let what you have to be enough for you. Do not look at what people have, but manage your life and with what you have.