It all started one lazy Sunday afternoon in a small town near Toronto in Canada. Two school-going friends had a crazy idea.
They rounded up three goats from the neighborhood and painted the number 1, 2 and 4 on their sides.
That
night they let the goats loose inside their school building.The next
morning, when the authorities entered the school, they could smell
something was wrong.
They soon saw goat droppings on the stairs and near the entrance and realized that some goats had entered the building.
A
search was immediately launched and very soon, the three goats were
found. But the authorities were worried, where was goat No. 3? They
spent the rest of the day looking for goat No.3. Gradually there was
panic and frustration.
The school declared classes off
for the students for the rest of the day. The teachers, helpers, guards,
canteen staffs, boys were all busy looking for the goat No. 3, which,
of course, was never found. Simply because it did not exist.
Those
among us who in-spite of having a good life are always feeling a "lack
of fulfillment" are actually looking for the elusive, missing,
non-existent goat No.3.
Whatever the area of complaint or search
or dissatisfaction may be - relationship, job-satisfaction,
materialistic achievement....
An absence of something
is always larger than the presence of many other things. Stop worrying
about goat No.3 and have worry-free days...
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