Fwd: "Shrusti - The Designer Group" Insight Of The Week : The 99 Club !!!
Vikram Raju
My Dear ........
Long ago, there lived a King. The King always found himself wondering why he just never seemed to be content with his life in spite of having everything.
One day, the King entered his huge living room and came to a stop when he heard
someone happily singing away..... following this singing..... he saw that one
of the servants was singing and had a very contented look on his face.
The man, his servant, entered the King's chambers as ordered. The King asked
why he was so happy? To this the man replied: "Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but I
make enough of a living to keep my wife and children happy. We don't need too
much, a roof over our head and warm food to fill our tummy. My wife and
children is my inspiration, they are content with whatever little I bring
home. I am happy because my family is happy."
Hearing this, the King asked him to go and called his minister with
anguish and asked him , How
Come my servant is so happy and contented than a KING ?
Minister said "Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made
part of The 99 Club." "The 99 Club? and what exactly is that?"
the King inquired. To which the minister replied, "Your
Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, you will have to do the
following..... place 99 Gold Coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's
doorstep, you will then understand what The 99 Club is."
That very same evening, the King arranged for 99 Gold coins to be placed in bag
at the servant's doorstep. Although he was slightly hesitant and he thought he
should have put 100 Gold Coins in the bag, but since his minister had advised
him to put 99 that is what he did.
The servant was just stepping out of his house when he saw a bag at his
doorstep. Wondering about its contents, he took it into his house and opened
the bag. When he opened the bag he let out a great big shout of joy..... Gold
Coins..... so many of them. He could hardly believe it. He called his wife to
show her the coins and they were besides themselves. He then took the bag to a
table and emptied it out and began to count the coins. Doing so, he realized
that there were 99 coins and he thought it was an odd number so he counted
again, and again and again only to come to the same conclusion...99 Gold Coins.
He began to wonder, what could have happened to that last 1 coin? For no one
would leave 99 coins. He began to search his entire house, looked around his
backyard for hours, not wanting to lose out on that one coin. Finally,
exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to
make up for that 1 Gold coin to make his entire collection an even 100 Gold
Coins.
He got up the next morning, in an extremely horrible mood, shouting at the
children and his wife for his delay, not realizing that he had spent most of
the night up conjuring ways of working hard so that he had enough money to buy
himself that gold coin. He went to work as usual only not in his usual best mood,
singing happily and whistling all day. He didn't even seem to notice that the
King was watching him as he grumpily did his daily errands.
Seeing the man's attitude change so drastically, the King was puzzled. The King
could not believe that the servant who until yesterday had been singing away
and was happy and content with his life had taken a sudden change of attitude,
even though he should have been happier after receiving the gold coins.
His minister replied "Your
Majesty, The servant has now officially joined The 99 Club."
He explained:
"The 99 Club is just a name given to those people who have everything but yet are never content, therefore they are always working hard and striving for that extra 1 to round it out to 100! We have so much to be thankful for and we can live with very little in our lives, but the minute we are given something bigger and better, we want even more! We are not the same happy contented person we used to be, we want more and more and by wanting more and more we don't realize the price we pay for it. We lose our sleep, our happiness; we hurt the people around us just as a price to pay for our growing needs and desires.
Hearing this the King
decided that from that day onwards, he would appreciate all the
little things he has in his life and changed forever !!!
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Striving for more is always good, but let’s not strive so hard and for so much that we lose all those near and dear to our heart, we shouldn't compromise our happiness for moments of luxuries! … Ask yourself “ Are you a member of 99 club ? Have a Great Week Ahead!!!
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M.Vikram Raju