Meditations, Observations, and Awareness of Social Behavior explained in everyday language.

Monday, May 12, 2014

The Duck Egg#103

I have heard—a duck
walks into the barn and announces that she’s just laid a yellow egg, but she does not know why. The other animals
agree that it is strange but say nothing more because they know nothing of
color. However, the farmer recognized it
as a solid golden egg worth more than ten times the farm. Soon, the egg was sold, and the man and his
wife become rich while the duck and other animals had to leave the only home they had ever known.

Meanwhile, the farmer
and his wife bought a new car, big house and filled it with expensive things which led to
expenses, lawyers, deadlines, taxes and people threatening them which made them
miserable. “All this…,” they thought, “…because
of a golden egg.” Soon they were unable
to pay for the luxuries spawned by the golden egg and were quickly penniless, in
debt and forced to leave their home.

Now homeless, the
farmer and his wife were are standing outside by the road wondering what to do
when all the animals came down the road and stopped in front of them--the duck
offered, “I’ve laid two more golden eggs, and with one of them I bought the
farm back and the other paid your debt.” “Thank you so much," the farmer thanked, “You
did all that for our farm?” “Our
farm??” the duck smiled.