Enough is Enough

A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his knight that if he could ride on his horse across as much land as possible, then the Emperor would give him the area of land he had covered.

Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go faster and faster.

When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as he could. It came to a point where he had covered a substantial area but he was exhausted and was dying. Then he asked himself, “Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself.”

Moral of the story:

We push ourselves to make more money, to gain power and recognition. We neglect our health. We don’t take time off to enjoy quality time with our family. We don’t take time to appreciate the beauty in nature and around us.

One day, when we look back, we will realize that we didn’t really need that much. But by then, it is already too late. We have lost our health, and grown apart from our family. We cannot turn back time for what we have missed.

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