Inspiring Story-Fruits of labour..

There once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy and 

fun loving son. The businessman wanted his son to be 

hard-working and responsible. He wanted him to realize 

the value of labour. One day he summoned his son and said: 

"Today, I want you to go out and earn something, failing 

which you won't have your meals tonight."

The boy was callous and not used to any kind of work. 

This demand by his father scared him and he went crying 

straight to his mother. Her heart melted at the sight of 

tears in her son's eyes. She grew restless. In a bid to help him 

she gave him a gold coin. In the evening when the father 

asked his son what he had earned, the son promptly presented 

him the gold coin. The father then asked him to throw it into 

a well. The son did as he was told.

The father was a man of wisdom and experience and guessed 

that the source of the gold coin was the boy's mother. The next

 day he sent his wife to her parent's town and asked his son to go 

and earn something with the threat of being denied the night meals 

if he failed. This time he went crying to his sister who sympathized 

with him and gave him a rupee coin out of her own savings. 


When his father asked him what he had earned the boy tossed 
the rupee coin  at him. The father again asked him to throw 
it in a well. The son did it quite readily. Again the father's wisdom 
told him that the rupee coin was not earned by his son. 
He then sent his daughter to her in-laws' house. He again asked 
his son to go out and earn with the threat that he shall not 
have anything for dinner that night.

This time since there was no one to help him out; the son was forced 

to go to the market in search of work. One of the shopkeepers there 

told him that he would pay him two rupees if he carried his trunk to 

his house. 


The rich man's son could not refuse and was drenched 

in sweat by the time he finished the job. His feet were trembling and 

his neck and back were aching. There were rashes on his back. 

As he returned home and produced the two rupee note before his 

father and was asked to throw it into the well, the horrified son 

almost cried out. He could not imagine throwing his hard-earned money 

like this. He said amid sobbing: "Father! My entire body is aching. 

My back has rashes and you are asking me to throw the money into the well."

At this the businessman smiled. He told him that one feels the pain only 

when the fruits of hard labour are wasted. On earlier two occasions 

he was helped by his mother and sister and therefore had no pain 

in throwing the coins into the well. 


The son had now realized the  value of hard work. 
He vowed never to be lazy and safe keep 

the father's wealth. The father handed over the keys of his shop 

to the son and promised to guide him through the rest of the life.

Moral of the Story: 


Some of the life's best lessons come from 

the hardest situations.