I want to be rich declared a boy while having his dinner. Of course you can but you need to study well and have to be so smart and intelligent to become rich replied his father.
In his school teacher asked the students what you want to become in future. Everyone gave their own opinions and he gave the same answer I WANT TO BE A RICH MAN...
Time traveled in its own pace all the way and it reached a point where the boy became a man...
As time can't determine how the person is ., but people always do they are so eager to know what this boy from the past is doing now...
And everyone is wondering how much money he is possessing now.
It has been a while he left his family and promised he would definitely return back someday.
Few years later the man send a letter to his family to visit his place by attaching all the details...
It is really a long journey for his family and they were really tired by the time they reached his place and they could hardly recognize him as he changed a lot in appearance...
But their eyes cannot believe what is present in front of them.
and they never believed his son would reach such a position in his life.
He is busy all the time and he had struggled a lot to reach that position...
Finally his father is the person to speak first...
He asked his son do you really own this much!!!
I never thought you would be in a place like this...
I think it is enough and and come back to us, we really miss you...
But his son is as stubborn as before and smoothly rejected his father's request and said he could never leave this place...
This time his father is really furious and asked him for the last time and his son's answer is as consistent as he is now.
The old man cannot understand what his son is up to and said when I accepted your opinions I believed in you all the time and felt you will be a great man some day but I can't believe my eyes and I am not a stupid to leave my son who is living such a pathetic life...
His son's response his so sharp that he asked his father what is so pathetic about his life.
His father is amazed with his son's response and asked what is so wrong with him and what
to all his dreams and goals of becoming rich...
Of course I am doing really great and I became a rich person... You should be proud of me dad....
Proud what do you mean proud dear boy...
Are you aware of your position here
When you send your address I wondered what you are doing in such a remote area.
Most of the people never know such a place on this earth ever exists.
And do you think it is a beautiful island?
You are living with a set of foolish and illiterate crowd and assuming that you have an amazing career...
Living such an obsolete life what are you so happy for asked the old man looking at the calm face of his son...
I thought with your knowledge you will have a promising career living lavishly...
With an extreme depression he sank down into a chair beside him.
Then his son walked toward his father and told him what he is doing all this time in such a place...
Father it may be a remote place no one would ever know and these people may be a bunch of uneducated fools and I may end my life without living a lavish life as you expected but father...
If I chose my career as everyone wish for I would be working for people who has got lots to spend and I end up accumulating more for them and make them spend some more and I never regret losing it because they are lots of people who can replace my place easily.
I may earn lots of money and visit different places in this world but I can never know this kind of world ever exists.
And father as you say never judge a book by its cover, don't think these people here as fools, they all have the same intelligence and knowledge as we have but all they lack is some support and guidance and this is the least help I am going to do for them. So please father believe me as you do every time.
His father raised his head looked at his
son and shook his head.
But my boy I can never really understand how you can say yourself as a rich person living in such conditions...
Father can you really define being rich...
But may you please listen to my version of rich and how I am rich.
I am rich in knowledge as you say every time.
I am rich in having great friends who will be with me every time what ever the situation is either good or bad.
My love is so rich with purity and generosity unlike with status and gifts.
I am rich with no tensions and fears.
And I am even rich even at my deathbed not by having a costly funeral but by having real mourners.
Father now just tell me what is your version of rich...
As I can easily predict its just having money.
But do you think this so called great money can buy anything I discussed before...
Never it can never do anything like that...
So what's so great about these rich people who can never buy anything that i have got using the only money they have got.
So I am some one who is possessing something valuable that money can never buy...
So do you accept me as a rich man now father... And I am successful in achieving what I promised from my childhood...
His father is speechless for few moments and then finally patted on his son's back...
Then he walked back towards the door with his eyes filled with pride and greatness...