Dear Madam,
You have presented a story and says it inspirational is somewhat contradicting to my observation. A story is generally a fictional narrative, where a moral or life lesson is that good will get good thing and evil would be perished. However, in your story, a good person is ending up committing suicide for not mentioning any change in his defined character makes reader confused and have inner conflict, which questions their values and making them to be cynical.
Appearance of wise man is generally for clearing the doubts or making us more refined, which is part of our archetype, symbolically making us to rely on our inner resources as well as connect to others. However, in your presentation, it made the good to end up perishing in an abrupt way. The plot did not say anything about a farmer, who bought the farm, is better than the other, who sold. The story is quiet about how second farmer deserved the diamonds, where his attitude is not exemplary. There is no explanation for why the wise man is asking for Hafiz, where he is no more relevant.
Sorry madam, I might have missed something in my understanding of your story. Please do explain, whenever, you are free. So that ordinary people like me, understand the inner dynamics of the story.
Regards,
Prof. Vijendra Kumar S.K.
Assistant Professor & Counseling Psychologist,
Centre for Counseling and Career Guidance,
PES University, Bangalore.
On Friday, November 25, 2016 10:11 AM, "'Hema Mehta' via Management Teachers Consortium, Global" <join_mtc@googlegroups.com> wrote:
ACRES OF DIAMONDS
There was a farmer in Africa who was happy and content. He was happy because he was content. He was content because he was happy. One day a wise man came to him and told him about the glory of diamonds and the power that goes along with them. The wise man said, "If you had a diamond the size of your thumb, you could have your own city. If you had a diamond the size of your fist, you could probably own your own country." And then he went away. That
night the farmer couldn't sleep. He was unhappy and he was discontent. He was unhappy because he was discontent and discontent because he was unhappy.
The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm, took care of his family and went in search of diamonds. He looked all over Africa and couldn't find any. He looked all through Europe and couldn't find any. When he got to Spain, he was emotionally, physically and financially broke. He got so disheartened that he threw himself into the Barcelona River and committed suicide.
Back home, the person who had bought his farm was watering the camels at a stream that ran through the farm. Across the stream, the rays of the morning sun hit a stone and made it sparkle like a
rainbow. He thought it would look good on the mantle piece. He picked up the stone and put it in the living room.
That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. He asked, "Is Hafiz back?" The new owner said, "No, why do you ask?" The wise man said, "Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one." The man said, no, that's just a stone I picked up from the stream. Come, I'll show you.
There are many more." They went and picked some samples and sent them for analysis. Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that the farm was indeed covered with acres and acres of diamonds.*
What is the moral of this story? There are five morals:
1. When our attitude is right, we realize that we are all walking on acres and acres of diamonds.
Opportunity is always under our
feet. We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it.
2. The grass on the other side always looks greener.
3. While we are dyeing the grass on the other side, there are others who are dyeing the grass on our side. They would be happy to trade places with us.
4. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks.
5. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.
Warm Regards,
Ms Hema Mehta
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