One day Yawny went fishing. He was hoping to get some fish today as the last few days were not that fruitful. As he was setting up his fishing gear by the bank, he saw another fisherman on the further end of the bank.
As he sat down after casting his line, he saw that the fisherman caught one and it was a rather small one. And he placed it in his basket. Deep in Yawny’s heart, he would wish he too would get that size of a fish and it would be enough for the day.
Then the next moment, he saw that fisherman’s line tighten and he pulled in one big one. Yawny was both overjoyed with his catch and at the same time envious why he did not catch any. The fisherman then steadied the fish, removed the hook and threw that big fish back into the water. Yawny’s eyes balled up in shock and anger. “What was this fisherman trying to prove?” Yawny screamed inside him.
Instead of watching his own line, he kept watching this fisherman. He pulled another small fish and placed it into the basket. This fisherman was really fortunate. He caught another big fish. Yawny watched in anticipation what he was going to do next. He threw it back into the water. Yawny boiled up within him.
Yawny stamped his feet towards this fisherman and demanded what in the world was he doing. This fisherman introduced himself as ‘Oday’. Yawny tried his best to politely asked him why Oday threw the big fish back into the waters.
With his confident smile, Oday replied, “Oh, that is easy. In my kitchen, the big fish is too big for our small wok. The small fish is just nice." Yawny fainted.
For me, I would reply: I am leaving big fish back in the water so that it can reproduce and we can continue to fishing everyday” or Oday should say, I am leaving back so that you can catch if you can.
ReplyDelete“ still there is a hope for everyone, continue to work, don’t work with broken heart, in the end you can still get big fish…”