What will you give me in return?

Ankur
2 min readAug 6, 2021
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There lived a beggar in a city. He used to beg people in the train. One day when he was begging, he saw a Sethji. He felt that Sethji would give him more money. Thinking this, he reached to Seth. He begged Seth. Seth told him that if I give you money, what will you give me in return?

Hearing Seth’s words, the beggar said — What can I give you? Seth said- If you can’t give me anything then why should I give you money? When the beggar got down at the next station, he remembered Seth’s words. Then his eyes fell on the flowers growing on the roadside. The beggar plucked those flowers.
Now whoever gave money to the beggar, in return he would give him a flower. A few days later, the beggar saw the same Sethji in the train. The beggar went to him and said — you give me money, in return I will also give you something. When Seth gave money, the beggar gave him flowers in return. Sethji was happy seeing this.

Seth said to the beggar that — now you have become a businessman, not a beggar. The beggar understood Seth’s point. A few years after this incident, when Sethji was traveling in a train, a man came and sat in front of him. He told Seth that — Today is your third meeting with me.

Seth looked at her in surprise and said — No we are meeting for the first time today. The man said that — you did not recognize me. I am the same beggar who used to give flowers to people in exchange for money. When you said that you are not a beggar but a trader, since then I stopped begging and started trading in flowers.

Today I have a good business of flowers. Your one thought changed my life, otherwise I would have been begging in trains even today. Listening to that man, Seth said that the reason for your success is not me but you yourself. You expanded your thinking and made the impossible possible.

Life Management
Nothing is impossible in life, just need to increase the scope of your thinking. The day you broaden your thinking, on that day you will get everything you want in the world.

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Ankur

I’m an creative person with 18 years of experience managing all aspects of the designing. I am also passionate for storytelling to my two sweet daughters.