What is Value of Human Being

Once upon a time, a blacksmith's child asked his father, "Dear Father, what is the value of a human being in this world?" The blacksmith was amazed to hear such a serious question from his little child. After thinking a little, he said, "Dear son, it is very difficult to tell you the worth of a human being. Everyone is priceless." The son said, "Is it true for every human being?" The father nodded in agreement.

Monkeys of Village

There was a village where a lot of monkeys used to live. A man came to the village and saw that the villagers were quite annoyed with the monkeys. He thought of an idea. He announced that for each monkey given to him, he would reward the villagers with ten bucks. Since the villagers were quite fed up with the monkeys, they immediately accepted the offer and started catching the monkeys.

The True Beauty

Every morning, Socrates used to stand in front of mirror. He then just used to keep looking at himself and admire himself patiently for long times.

The Best Cup

A group of college friends met each other after a long time. All of them were doing great in their respective careers. After spending a lot of time together, they decided to meet their favorite professor of college. The professor welcomed them and asked about their jobs etc. The discussions went ahead and reached on the topic of increasing stress and tensions in their lives. Everyone was of the same opinion that although they are now financially very strong, yet they do not have the fun in their lives that was present earlier.

The Rotten Apples

In a school, a teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few apples. Each apple will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of apples that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

The Winner-Frog

Long time ago, many frogs used to live in a pond. In the middle of pond, there was a metallic pole built by the king of that nation. It was a tall pole with very smooth surface. One day, the frogs decided that they would arrange for a competition in which the participant frog would try to reach to the top of the pole. The frog who would reach to the top first would be declared as winner and would be rewarded.

How Much Land You Need

A tourist visited house of a farmer. At night, they started discussing various things about the places the tourist had visited earlier. While they were discussing, the tourist said, "Why are you wasting your time doing such small-scale farming. In Siberia, I saw that the land is so cheap that people just sell it for almost no money. It will be better for you if you sell this small farm and go to Siberia. You will get many acres of land and you will live happily."

Nail in Tree

Long time ago, there lived a boy in a village. He used to get angry for every little thing. In anger, he used to shout at other people for almost no reason. Disappointed with this attitude, his father called him one day and gave him a bag full of nails. Then he said to his son, "Whenever you get angry at anything, just take one nail out of this bag and pierce it in the trunk of the tree outside our home."

The Leaf of a Rose Tree

In a forest, there was a pond. Near the pond, there was a garden having different varieties of plants and trees. Tourists from various places used to visit the garden. They used to praise the garden for its beauty. A leaf on one of the rose trees daily used to see the tourists praising the beauty of roses on the tree. He thought that maybe some tourist would praise him also. Many days passed, but the tourists only used to praise the beauty of flowers. When nobody praised the leaf even after so many days, he started feeling himself in destitution. Many thoughts started coming all over his mind, "All these people are praising the roses and all other flowers but none of them ever appreciated me. Maybe my life is useless. I am nothing in front of these beautiful flowers...." Thinking all these things, he started remaining extremely sad.

Dance of a Sage

In a village, there lived a sage. Whenever he used to dance, it started raining. Hence, whenever the villagers felt the need of rain, they used to go near the saint and requested him to dance. And when the saint used to dance agreeing to their demands, it always started raining.