Once a student in a high school asked his teacher, “What is Greed?” The teacher suggested the following experiment to the student, “In order for me to provide the best possible answer to your question, I advise you to go through the chocolate factory next to our school and pick the one chocolate you like the most. In this experiment, there is only one rule. You can pick any chocolate no matter the taste, size or value, but as you walk through the factory, you can never turn back to get the chocolate you passed. You can only pick the chocolate as you go forward.”
The student accepted the experiment and went to the chocolate factory. As he walked through the factory he saw the most delicious and exotic chocolates he before never even though of. As he went through the factory he decided to not pick the chocolate at the very start as he would most probably find better ones much later. He didn’t want to close his “door of opportunity” too soon.
So he kept walking and searching for the biggest and most delicious looking piece of chocolate. With every step, he took, with every sniff he made he hardly could keep calm as the aroma of chocolate was so strong. Also, he couldn’t believe how big the pieces were getting. With every room, he came into there were bigger and more delicious looking pieces of chocolate. So with that in mind, he could hardly wait to come towards the end and pick the best piece of chocolate in the factory.
But to his surprise, the pieces were getting smaller and less delicious looking towards the end. So now the student felt sorry for not picking the chocolate sooner. And with every room, he stepped in now he kept contemplating about the bigger pieces in the previous rooms. Wishing to get the most he could he didn’t pick a chocolate until he came to the last room which was empty.
After the experiment ended the student felt sad and ashamed that he didn’t make a decision sooner. He lost everything because he at first kept looking for a better option and then when he finally noticed that it was only getting worse, he kept thinking of the lost opportunities and not taking advantage of the opportunities in front of him. As the student returned to the high school to let the teacher know the result, the teacher was waiting for him with a big box of chocolate. The student thanked the teacher for the lesson and shared the chocolate with his classmates.
Moral of the story:
- Prepare yourself for the opportunities you want to take.
- The secret to happiness is to make sure you know what you want and need. If you find something that can fulfill your needs and wants stop looking for more and take the opportunity, or risk to miss out on everything.
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