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What is Happiness? Journey or destination?|Amazing Story|

I want to tell you an amazing story. This story will change your mindset about HAPPINESS…..

There was a king and one day the King was walking with his minister and he saw farmer along with his family (son and wife) in the farm. They were very happy, their faces were shining, they were enjoying, they were singing.They had so much a love for each other.

And the king said to the minister, I have a very big palace, a lot of money and I have each and everything that one could dream in his/her life. They are happier than me. How? & Why?”

Minister said to king, because this family is not a member of the 99 club.The king said, what is 99 club?

The minister said to king, you give me 99 gold coins, I will tell you what is 99 club and their reason of happiness as well but not right now, I will tell you after six months

The minister took the bag filled with 99 gold coins and put it at the door step of the farmer. 

When the farmer wake up, he saw a bag near to his door. He picked the bag up, went back into his house, he opened the bag . He was shocked, Glittering gold! Gold coins! 

He had never come across such a stroke of good fortune. He emptied the coins on the floor and started counting the coins. As he saw, they were 99. He was thinking, he made any mistake in counting because he was too excited. Let me count one more time. Then he started again counting the coin and again he found 99

He was thinking , Who is that idiot, who forget to put one more coin. He should have made it 100 coins . Why  99 coins only ?

Then he came up idea, may be I counting wrong because I am to exited, then he  called his wife and said.You count the coins ?

She counted and said, “99 coins only “

The farmer said, you are also not counting right. So he called his son and said him to count the coins and the son counted and found they were 99.

The man said,”God, we can’t live like this. We have to make this 100. So he started working very hard to  make it 100  coins. His wife was thinking that my husband is  such a mad person, we have  99  coins and  my husband is not spend anything. So she took two gold coins from the bag and went for shopping.

Everyday the guy count the gold coins. So that day he came and counted the gold coins and  found 97 coins only . Initially only 1 coin was less, now 2 . He shouted, where did the two gold coins go?

His wife said, I am not mad like you, I thought let me do some shopping with 2 gold coins. So I went and spent the two gold coins.”the farmer was very angry, he said I am doing hard work day and night to make it 100 coins and you spent 2 coins. After some time, son of farmer spent 2 more, no finally  95  coins left.

 After six months, the king and the minister were walking and they saw the buzz had gone, the life had gone, the song had gone, the love had gone; only arguments, fights, bickering.

The king said, How did the family of farmer change so much in  6 months only.

The minister said that Now they are finally “Members of  99 Club”

The king asked the minister,  what is the 99 club? 

The minister said that 99 club is a club of those people  who have 99 things with them, but they are  running after the one, they don’t use their 99.In running behind the one, in trying to achieve 100, they forget to utilize the 99 things which they have?

Moral of the story:  I have learned one thing in my life and I thoroughly believe in it. Don’t Wait for the destination, Start finding happiness while you are on the journey. Don’t postpone your happiness to then ( to any specific moment ). Today I may have the greatest challenge in life, that does not mean I should postpone my satisfaction and happiness. Today I may be in the middle of the greatest chaos, that does not mean I should postpone my satisfaction and happiness. Don’t Wait for Happy Moments- Just Enjoy Life

“HAPPINESS IS A JOURNEY NOT A DESTINATION”

 

About Author – This article is originally published in TANx by   Tanay Singh (Author, Entrepreneur, Researcher, Life coach, Motivational Speaker, Business Consultant & Digital Marketer