Once a fisherman was sitting near seashore, under the shadow of a tree smoking his beedi. Suddenly a rich businessman passing by approached him and enquired as to why he was sitting under a tree smoking and not working. To this the poor fisherman replied that he had caught enough fishes for the day.
Hearing this the rich man got angry and said: Why don’t you catch more fishes instead of sitting in shadow wasting your time?
Fisherman asked: What would I do by catching more fishes?
Businessman: You could catch more fishes, sell them and earn more money, and buy a bigger boat.
Fisherman: What would I do then?
Businessman: You could go fishing in deep waters and catch even more fishes and earn even more money.
Fisherman: What would I do then?
Businessman: You could buy many boats and employ many people to work for you and earn even more money.
Fisherman: What would I do then?
Businessman: You could become a rich businessman like me.
Fisherman: What would I do then?
Businessman: You could then enjoy your life peacefully.
Fisherman: Isn’t that what I am doing now?
Moral – You don’t need to wait for tomorrow to be happy and enjoy your life. You don’t even need to be more rich, more powerful to enjoy life. LIFE is at this moment, enjoy it fully.
As some great men have said “My riches consist not in extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants”.
Author Unknown
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This is really inspiring Steve.
What an inspirational story
You have said the moral of life.
It’s an inspiration to enjoy life happily.
Wow! What a superb story!
it is true that your are needed to enjoy your life at any time without considering the condition which you have at the moment
teaching a man how to fish doesn’t necessarily make him a cartel owner….unless he is happy doing it and has a “want to”.
I’d rather be happy on the journey than thinking happiness was found only in possessions and / or large cashflow.
A great one too….
This is one of my favorite stories now.
Nice story. That the true do what makes u happy. Give peace to ur mind and who knows the future so enjoy ur present ……
Very nice story with a powerful message…
I liked it very much.
Good story……….
Your site is very educative and inspirational. God bless you.
Great!!!
This is one of the finest stories I ever read or heard….
This is one of the fantastic story i ever read. . .
awesome story i ever read
How quickly we forget n tend to assume that one day will get all that we want in life which is only a nightmare.Today is your only day.Yesterday has passed n tomorrow s neva assured.Take time to enjoy yourself today with no regrets…
the moral is really true
awesome .truly inspirational !!!!!!!!!!
Wow simply superb.
Beautiful
Thanks for sharing.
interesting one…..
It is an amazing, and real life based story. We really forget many memorable moments of our life in the race of life. I don’t know who are you, but thanks for this site from the bottom of my heart.
good one
Superb!!
Wow…. Short but sweet…..
A short dialouge can make a great change in people’s life…
Intresting One …
Awesome… simple and good story.
WOW
Nice and true!
Good and nice story.
The moral is, mind your own business! Lol! just kidding. Haha! Most of the time, you enjoy life by its simplest things. Nice!
It is the most heart touching story I ever read and it is universal truth that the moment you have, you have otherwise not have tomorrow.
It is real that, a person should enjoy his/her life at every moment.
Very interesting story……….. Superb………..
Moral is okie but why u will not stay hunger to achieve more
Very good one.
It iss good inspiration for peacefully life.
superb……….story………:-)
Story is superb. What a twist at last…
very good.
Nice story!
Yes, it’s really nice story.
We have to enjoy life while you are living.
If some one got all the things, but there is no breath what is the meaning of life/person it is.
Enjoy the work what to do.
Do the work with happiness.
nice story………
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Absolutely incredible. This is truth. When you hear the truth, you get it. This story makes perfect sense. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to experience it later, in which case you will develop a mindset of being happy later which will carry on into your retirement life. This leads to neediness for the rest of your life. Or you can be happy now, and not worry about being needy. Great job, I love this post, thank You so much. It was great to read a story of this nature.
Really an amazing and strong story….no doubt in that……………but one point that we should never forget is that althoug you have got everything , all wealth , possesions but then also u should aspire to go to more higher heights together with enjoying your current moments……you should not stop at any point…keep going forward along with enjoying ur current moments….life is a precious gift given by god to any human being…
This is really an amazing story……….The ultimate motive of life is to get a few moments of relaxation………….
It is awesome!!! and even true. Loved it.
The story was really super and great…
I am very much inspired with this story. I’ll try to implement in my life.
I am motivated!!
This is a agreat story I like this very much
Awesome story boss…
It is really a nice story and encouraging
It is indeed a good story, happiness is a choise as well as to enjoy life is a choise.
It’s outstanding…. This is what Life should be…..
Wonderful moral story, helped me in my project!!!!
Absolutely true!
Great story.. life is so simple don’t make it complicated. It’s just a matter of choices.
It is a good story.
Awesome story! Really need this type of stuff to keep myself going. You never really know what is gona happen tomorrow…
Don’t think about tomorrow………Today is in our hand……Enjoy each and every seconds in our life…..
Enjoy the present, if we have not seen tomorrow why to worry about it!
Be happy with today and you will discover you have always been happy through your life.
This story made me realize that, you dont need lots of money for you to be able to enjoy life!! Thanks to the author!!
It is a very interesting story.
Life is at the moment. Great story, and it’s true, if you value this momet you value the life, and life is sooooo short that’s why let’s enjoy every our minutes and be greatful for every moment we can breath…
Life is joy, we have to enjoy.
It is good in morals
Moral is way to life.
It is a good story with a righteous moral. However, what the businessman was saying is sitting around lazily enjoying doing nothing w/o worry is not very fulfilling or even in some way morally justified. It should be one’s right to live that way and if it makes one happy, then so be it. And there is a happy medium. From my point of view, he was lazy and w/o ambition and he will continue to sit under that tree forever, that’s his choice and right. But, I wouldn’t want to depend on him for anything and I certainly wouldn’t.
This story has a very wonderful meaning in each and every sentence which helps us to come up in our life which means being happy in every movement.
It’s an awesome story full of moral.. thanks for share…
It’s a good story.
It is an interesting story. It is very useful in our life.
Great…….thanks for your nice story. It is very helpful for everyone.
Heard it before and was happy to find it.
Suprisingly it is set in India, where it’s not just a story but a way of life for so many… I learned exactly that from villagers across the country.
Sooppa story
Your site is awesome. I am inspired for a while and hopefully for long term. Well.. I wanna do something I love in my life and something that I can enjoy, not something that I am not up and resorted to do/work.
Lazy people admire the poor fisherman’s way of thinking while I admire the rich man, because the rich man think of helping others by giving them jobs, thinking the someday they will be a businessmen too.
“Life goes on” so enjoy all the moments of life.
Superb story. We should live happily.
Superb dude…….
Cool… liked it.
I like the story very much. I am very greatful to you…..
Nice but not to..After fulfilling his wants, why didn’t help others? Don’t be selfish.
Your site is awesome. I am inspired for a while and hopefully for long term. Well.. I wanna do something I love in my life and something that I can enjoy, not something that I am not up and resorted to do/work.
Very nice story. Even though I heard it somewhere. Reading it again and again gives me the immense pleasure of thinking each and every moment to Enjoy. Every moment to live your life to the fullest. We always make mistake by thinking to get happiness rather than being happy.
There are no poor people in this world. There are only indolent people which claimed themselves as no having nothing.
I love this story…!
We should be contented of what have given to us.
I remember reading this back in 2010. Whenever I’m feeling down I just re-read it ;D It’s true, I’m always pushed to go to college and become a lawyer or doctor. I wanna join the navy and travel. I’m still 16 and I think I have more than enough time to figure out what I wanna do in life. I’m stressed out with school at the moment. But I just love this story
Life is joy. We have to enjoy each and every movement.
Real, encouragement to venture into creat knowledge & big plans, salute Steve.
Great story..:)
Eureka! I found it! I heard this great moral story sometime ago. I only remembered some of it. I was searching for it. Now I found it. Thanks to your site. Good job.
It is fish not fishes.