When we say "Opportunity", many start thinking about the job, and few may start naming the opportunity most probably we use the metal Gold in terms of referring opportunities. Largely opportunity knock once, some times it knocks twice, in rare case it may knows continuously..Whatever turns it may be, accept it and use your creativity to convert it to an Golden one.
Here is a story to explain how to turn your opportunities in to gold:
There was a farmer living in a small village with his 3 sons, Out of 3 sons the elder ones are so rough and not helping their father, the youngest one was good and helping his father on his old age, one day the farmer went ill and dead, after the funeral, the two elder sons were decided to divide the property in to two among themselves without thinking about the youngest one. After a while the youngest one arrived house and asking about the share. The two elder ones shocked and one has manged to justify the situation with a lie, It is - Our father said after my time please share the land and house among you both and please pass the loom thread to the youngest one which is available in the backyard room,
This young poor boy believed, so he left the place with the loom thread and reached the shore of the one and only pond in his village, he was very tired and laid down in the shore for some time. Though the pond was not a healthy and safe place as people believe no one has returned from there as there was a giant living in the pond and it robs all the gold and money from the people whoever passes the pond and kill them, this poor boy was dreaming and suddenly he woke up and thinking about the next steps of survival and suddenly he saw a squirrel running around the tree, he thought he can use the thread to catch the squirrel and get some money by selling its skin, he finally caught the squirrel and he felt Wow! this thread is very strong and really useful, basically he is a kind of soft nature guy, so he did not have heart to kill that sweet squirrel so he kept the squirrel in to cage and kept aside,
Here is an another turn, this time he saw a Rabbit and caught it and did not kill the rabbit either and kept the Rabbit also in to one another cage, cool chap started thinking again about the survival, and he thought of net the pond as he might get some robbed gold or fish.. So, he started preparing a net with the loom thread. The giant's son was watching all these and he got angered and came near to the boy and trying to scare the boy, cool guy did not scare and the younger giant was questioning the boy, hey you! how dare you sit in the shore of giant's pond all these are belongs to us and you are not supposed to sit here.. Go away you damn! Boy said, hey don't try to scare me little giant, you go away curse creature.. [In a loud noise] a little giant stepped back and complaining his father about a guy who is sitting in our shore did not has anything to rob and he is not ready to vacate the place either, [An usual thought in our native slang - "எப்படி கோத்து விடுது பாரு குண்டு பய புள்ள"]
Alright said the mighty giant, here is a master plan; you go have a chat with him and let him agree to participate in a competition and tell him he has to come with you if you win, tiny giant has back and said the boy hey I'll let you net the pond if you win in the competition, cool tiny giant that's a good deal, common go ahead what's the play? Yeah here you go.. We will have a climbing tree competition and see who climbs faster, fine here is my little brother squirrel will compete with you in the climbing tree, the tiny giant was not able to compete as squirrel climb very fast in nature,
The tiny giant did not leave and asked for another competition running, our cool chap has another option alright here is my big brother Rabbit will compete with you and tiny giant lost in this too, suddenly a boy saw a bear goes behind the tree .. Oops! said giant, last but not least we will have final competition boxing, fine my grand father bear is there behind the tree and the giant went and came with a terrible battle damage, tiny went to his father and described the happening, tough giant astonished and said he must be so strong then, go and ask him what he wants and the boy said he wants two bags of gold and he got the same and left the pond and reached the house with two bags of gold, now the elder brothers are back and asking the younger one hey how did you got so much of gold,
The clever little boy said, with the help of the magic net weaved using the loom thread from the mighty pond, oh is not it!! two elder brothers look at them each other and decided to handover the property to the boy and demanded the magic net, boy got the property and gave the magic net to his brothers, the brothers went to the pond and got struck with the mighty & tiny giants and did not back at all..
So the moral of the story is the title of the story.. Now the boy leads happy life in his village..
~Enjoy reading
Karthik
