It's never too late!!

Once upon a time, a Guru and his disciple were passing through a village. Both were very hungry. They saw a house nearby and knocked on the door.

A man dressed in torn clothes came out.

Guru said to him, "We are very hungry. Can we have something to eat?"

The man welcomed them into his house and fed them. After eating, when Guru looked around, he saw a very fertile land nearby. The land was fertile but looking at crops, it seemed that man didn't pay much attention to the field.

He went to the man and asked, "How do you make a living?"

The man replied, "I have a buffalo which gives a lot of milk. I make a living out of it."

It was nighttime, so Guru asked the man if they can stay for the night. Man agreed. Guru stayed there along with the disciple.

At night, Guru woke up his disciple and said, "Let us get out of here now and we will also take his buffalo with us."

Disciple didn't like what his Guru said as the man helped them so much and buffalo was the only source of his living but what could he do. He followed his Guru's instruction and both took the buffalo along and left silently.

Even after years, this thing kept bothering disciples.

So, one day disciple decided to meet that man. He reached the village and when he reached near that man's field, he was surprised to see that the vacant fields were now turned into fruit orchards.

The disciple couldn't believe his eyes, just then a man appeared in front of him. Disciple greeted him and said, "Years ago, I met you with my Guru."

The man invited the disciple to his house and then said, "That day my buffalo was lost. I looked for it everywhere but couldn't find it. I didn't know what to do.

Then I went to the forest and started cutting wood and selling them. With that money, I bought some seeds and planted them in my field.

Harvest was good that year. I used that money to plant fruit orchards. Now, my business is going very well. At present, I am the biggest trader of fruits in this area. Sometimes, I think if I had not lost my buffalo that night, all this would not have happened."

Disciple said, "You could have done this work earlier also..! Before losing your buffalo."

The man replied, "At that time my life was going on easy without any hard work, I didn't think of doing hard work as money from selling milk was enough for daily needs. I never thought that I could do so much."

Flash: We all have the capability to become Great. But sometimes we get so obsessed in our comfort zones that we forget that we can fly very high only when we take on challenging responsibilities. The one accepting challenges, taking responsibilities proactively, and being honest to work, is the person to reach the heights and become successful in the career.

Moral: If we don't understand and experience the difficulty it takes to earn the comfort provided by our loved ones, then we will never value it. The most important thing is to experience the difficulty and learn to value hard work behind all the given comfort.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work!!