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
It’s an awesome story full of moral.. thanks for share…
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 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.
Moral is way to life.
It is good in morals
Life is joy, we have to enjoy.
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…
It is a very interesting story.
This story made me realize that, you dont need lots of money for you to be able to enjoy life!! Thanks to the author!!
Be happy with today and you will discover you have always been happy through your life.
Enjoy the present, if we have not seen tomorrow why to worry about it!
Don’t think about tomorrow………Today is in our hand……Enjoy each and every seconds in our life…..
Awesome story! Really need this type of stuff to keep myself going. You never really know what is gona happen tomorrow…
It is a good story.
Great story.. life is so simple don’t make it complicated. It’s just a matter of choices.
Absolutely true!
Wonderful moral story, helped me in my project!!!!
It’s outstanding…. This is what Life should be…..
It is indeed a good story, happiness is a choise as well as to enjoy life is a choise.
It is really a nice story and encouraging
Awesome story boss…
This is a agreat story I like this very much
I am motivated!!
I am very much inspired with this story. I’ll try to implement in my life.
The story was really super and great…
It is awesome!!! and even true. Loved it.
This is really an amazing story……….The ultimate motive of life is to get a few moments of relaxation………….
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…
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.
i love this story superb story <3
good story…
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!
very good.
Story is superb. What a twist at last…
superb……….story………:-)
It iss good inspiration for peacefully life.
Very good one.
Moral is okie but why u will not stay hunger to achieve more
Very interesting story……….. Superb………..
It is real that, a person should enjoy his/her life at every moment.
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.
The moral is, mind your own business! Lol! just kidding. Haha! Most of the time, you enjoy life by its simplest things. Nice!
Good and nice story.
Nice and true!
WOW
Awesome… simple and good story.
Wow…. Short but sweet…..
A short dialouge can make a great change in people’s life…
Intresting One …
Superb!!
good 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.
interesting one…..
Beautiful 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Wow simply superb.
awesome .truly inspirational !!!!!!!!!!
the moral is really true
How quickly we forget and 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 and tomorrow is never assured. Take time to enjoy yourself today with no regrets…
Most awesome story I ever read.
This is one of the fantastic story I ever read. . .
This is one of the finest stories I ever read or heard….
Great!!!
Your site is very educative and inspirational. God bless you.
Good story……….
Very nice story with a powerful message…
I liked it very much.
Nice story. That the true do what makes u happy. Give peace to ur mind and who knows the future so enjoy ur present ……
This is one of my favorite stories now.
A great one too….
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.
It is true that your are needed to enjoy your life at any time without considering the condition which you have at the moment.
Wow! What a superb story!
It’s an inspiration to enjoy life happily.
You have said the moral of life.
What an inspirational story
This is really inspiring Steve.