story & lesson

[najafi313]

Story and lesson :

 

In a day over history , there was a clothes merchant lived with his wife and two children, he had a beautiful  hen laid an egg every day but it wasn’t an ordinary egg it was golden egg, so he was lived a very good livelihood, but he wasn’t satisfied about that he wanted to be rich in one step, so he thought about that then he decided to collect all the eggs which his hen had, he brought the knife and kill it but he didn’t find anything, his life was going on smoothly with one egg per day but now him himself made his life miserable, the outcome of his greed was that he become poorer and poorer day by day.

 

What is the lessons that this story teach?.

 

[Reza]

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand the story.

Could you explain the story and its lesson please?

[Hameedeh]

That is one of Aesop's fables. The moral is: Too much greed results in nothing.

http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/goldengooseegg.htm

[zainabamy]

Wa aleikum as salam,

I think it warns of the power of greed and shows the arrogance of mankind because some people think they can be completely self-sufficient.

 

[apofomysback]

greed aside, it shows that you shouldn't cut a beautiful hen 

[em]

cool story. I guess the lesson is be satisfied with what you have