A Strange Chicken That Laid Golden Eggs | I Like The Most Best Moral Story
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“All Covet, All Lose”
“All covet, all lose”
is a famous proverb. It means that actions and decisions taken in haste without
proper thinking often lead a person to irreparable loss and repentance. So, it
is wiser to be slow but sure. The following story “a strange Chicken that laid golden eggs” explains this bitter
fact.
Once,
there lived a poor, weak, thin-bodied, impatient young man in a certain village.
Although he was very poor yet dead honest. He used to earn his living by the
sweat of his brow. Still, he had to starve. One day, he worked on daily wages
and bought four chickens. One of the chickens was very well-known and
illuminating. As it grew up into a young chicken, it began to lay an egg of
solid gold daily. He would sell the eggs at a very high price and grow rich
within a few days. He was respected everywhere. Not only that but he was tempted by the aristocracy to great feasts. He also shifted from a hut to a big bungalow. But with the
passage of time, he grew greedier and greedier and started dreaming of growing
millionaires overnight. “One egg daily,”
he thought, “and it will take me several months to grow rich. It is a very
painful thing. God is not doing justice to me.”
He was so impatient that he could not wait for the eggs to come out one by one. His brain started working quickly. At last, a plot flashed through his mind. He took a momentous decision of killing the chicken or hen, opening its stomach, acquiring all the eggs at one and the same time, and growing rich within hours. But a guest, who was staying with him that night, said to him:
“Do not be so impatient and
greedy. You will lose the chicken/hen as well as eggs.” He further advised,
“What you have, hold.”
But
he paid a deaf ear to his warning, killed the chicken/hen, opened its stomach, and looked for the egg. His surprise knew no bounds when he found no egg in his
stomach. In the hope of getting many eggs at one time, he had lost both the chicken
and the eggs. He forgot all that,
Greed
is a curse.
All
covet, all lose
Haste
makes waste.
Something
is better than nothing.
Contentment
is a great blessing and
Look
before you leap.
Now,
he realized his stupidity and began to repent of his false act, but it was too
late then. He got, “Haste is the sister
of repentance” and that, “Hurry bequeaths repentance.”
Moral:
- Greed is a curse.
- All covet, all lose
- It is no use crying over spilt milk.
- Haste makes waste.
- Something is better than nothing.
- A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
- Contentment is a great blessing.
- Look before you leap.