Enjoy your life at every moment   57 comments

Posted at 6:29 pm in Motivational stories

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: What do you think I’m doing right 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”.


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Story Posted by Stephen on November 17th, 2008

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57 Responses to: Enjoy your life at every moment

  1. IMOLE JOSEPH -- 25 Apr 09 at 5:48 pm

     

    this is really inspiring Steve.

  2. Anamika -- 3 Oct 09 at 9:41 am

     

    What an inspirational story

  3. rocky -- 9 Dec 09 at 9:23 am

     

    you have said the moral of life

  4. Asmita -- 30 Dec 09 at 5:01 am

     

    its an inspiration to enjoy life happily

  5. SWETHA -- 4 Jan 10 at 7:38 am

     

    WOW!WHAT A SUPER STORY!

  6. MYOVELA JULIUS -- 23 Apr 10 at 8:26 am

     

    it is true that your are needed to enjoy your life at any time without considering the condition which you have at the moment

  7. Kevin -- 25 Apr 10 at 3:45 am

     

    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.

  8. khouloud kleshko -- 18 May 10 at 8:34 am

     

    a great one too….

  9. lbrito -- 21 May 10 at 12:25 am

     

    This is one of my favorite stories now.

  10. vishakha -- 21 May 10 at 9:40 pm

     

    Nice story. That the true do what makes u happy. Give peace to ur mind and who knows the future so enjoy ur present ……

  11. kn karthick -- 4 Jul 10 at 1:28 pm

     

    Very nice story with a powerful message…
    I liked it very much

  12. Gopi chebrolu -- 16 Jul 10 at 1:33 am

     

    Good story……….

  13. bernard -- 5 Aug 10 at 6:23 am

     

    Your site is very educative and inspirational. God bless you.

  14. david villa -- 20 Oct 10 at 9:35 am

     

    gr8

  15. sahil -- 23 Oct 10 at 10:25 am

     

    this is one one of the finest stories i ever read or heard….

  16. Tauseef -- 15 Dec 10 at 12:43 pm

     

    This is one of the fantastic story i ever read. . .

  17. anjan komaravelli -- 28 Dec 10 at 11:07 am

     

    awesome story i ever read

  18. JACKIE NJOROGE -- 13 Jan 11 at 12:21 am

     

    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…

  19. aakko -- 14 Feb 11 at 10:27 am

     

    the moral is really true

  20. dam -- 22 Feb 11 at 5:47 am

     

    awesome .truly inspirational !!!!!!!!!!

  21. Seshu -- 17 Mar 11 at 4:09 am

     

    Wow simply superb.

  22. Sheeba -- 10 Apr 11 at 4:30 pm

     

    Beautiful :) Thanks for sharing.

  23. neha thukral -- 29 Apr 11 at 2:57 am

     

    interesting one…..

  24. Rakesh mishra -- 13 May 11 at 1:42 pm

     

    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.

  25. Eshaani Patel -- 14 May 11 at 1:47 am

     

    good one

  26. Abdul -- 9 Jun 11 at 5:19 am

     

    Superb!!

  27. Rochelle -- 13 Jun 11 at 11:58 am

     

    Wow…. Short but sweet…..
    A short dialouge can make a great change in people’s life…
    Intresting One …

  28. Swathi -- 15 Jun 11 at 1:28 am

     

    Awesome… simple and good story.

  29. JONITA -- 18 Jun 11 at 2:06 pm

     

    WOW

  30. Nisha -- 19 Jun 11 at 4:17 pm

     

    Nice and true!

  31. santhosh shinde -- 27 Jun 11 at 6:29 am

     

    Good and nice story.

  32. Van -- 6 Jul 11 at 4:09 am

     

    The moral is, mind your own business! Lol! just kidding. Haha! Most of the time, you enjoy life by its simplest things. Nice!

  33. Tauseef Gillani -- 11 Jul 11 at 4:15 am

     

    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.

  34. ABDUL BASIT -- 11 Jul 11 at 6:36 am

     

    It is real that, a person should enjoy his/her life at every moment.

  35. Rajat Jain -- 14 Jul 11 at 2:17 am

     

    Very interesting story……….. Superb………..

  36. Sarita -- 23 Jul 11 at 1:49 am

     

    Moral is okie but why u will not stay hunger to achieve more

  37. Sanjeev -- 27 Jul 11 at 6:02 am

     

    Very good one.

  38. Gurpreet Singh -- 5 Aug 11 at 12:36 am

     

    It iss good inspiration for peacefully life.

  39. avanthika -- 8 Aug 11 at 12:37 am

     

    superb……….story………:-)

  40. Ramesh -- 9 Aug 11 at 8:00 am

     

    Story is superb. What a twist at last…

  41. shaz -- 11 Aug 11 at 1:44 pm

     

    very good.

  42. Mimi -- 14 Aug 11 at 7:18 pm

     

    Nice story!

  43. Basani -- 3 Oct 11 at 2:14 am

     

    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.

  44. Brindha -- 3 Oct 11 at 8:11 am

     

    nice story………

  45. Brindha -- 3 Oct 11 at 8:13 am

     

    good story…

  46. Husnain -- 11 Oct 11 at 6:27 am

     

    i love this story superb story <3

  47. Adam -- 11 Oct 11 at 11:56 am

     

    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.

  48. Sumit Ranjan -- 14 Oct 11 at 1:17 am

     

    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…

  49. Mir Erfaan -- 24 Oct 11 at 9:47 pm

     

    This is really an amazing story……….The ultimate motive of life is to get a few moments of relaxation………….

  50. Tanisha -- 10 Nov 11 at 4:09 am

     

    It is awesome!!! and even true. Loved it.

  51. Loganayaki -- 11 Nov 11 at 4:40 am

     

    The story was really super and great…

  52. Gaurav_Luthra -- 23 Nov 11 at 8:43 am

     

    I am very much inspired with this story. I’ll try to implement in my life.

  53. Gaurav -- 9 Dec 11 at 3:55 am

     

    I am motivated!!

  54. Kalyani -- 10 Dec 11 at 9:37 am

     

    This is a agreat story I like this very much

  55. Akash -- 12 Jan 12 at 9:42 am

     

    Awesome story boss…

  56. P.rimona -- 13 Jan 12 at 5:16 am

     

    It is really a nice story and encouraging

  57. Ongoro Ben Nyareki -- 31 Jan 12 at 12:51 am

     

    It is indeed a good story, happiness is a choise as well as to enjoy life is a choise.

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