Joyeur

A young boy leaves his home in search of "Secret of happiness".


While wandering through an old city, he comes across a palace where an old king stayed.


The boy meets king and asks whether he knew the secret of happiness.


The king says yes and asks the boy to have a round in his palace but holding a spoon of oil in his hand.


The boy, takes the spoon full of oil, and goes around to watch the exotic things, beautiful pictures and the artwork in the palace.


When he returns back to the king, the king asks "You saw the beautiful palace and the exquisite things, but where are my drops of oil? You have dropped them being unaware of them".

When the boy knew from the king that, he needed to keep the oil intact while roaming around, and was asked to go and visit other parts of the mansion, he went being careful about the oil and got back to the king after the visit.


Then the king said "wow, u have kept the oil intact this time, and tell me what all did u see?"


The boy was speechless this time, he realized he did not see anything. He was just busy in keeping an eye on the oil in the spoon.


The king tells the boy. "The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels in the world & never forget the drops of oil in the spoon"

That's what most us do in general.
In pursuit of seeking a living, we forget to live.
This story tells us, Neither we can be happy with fulfilling only the responsibilities we have, nor having our desire fulfilled will provide us true joy.
To seek true happiness, we must live with a balance between our responsibilities and desires.
Is not it?
And there is no age for it. Each moment that we live on this earth, all through the life, we should have this in our attitude.