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There was once a man who lived life through his simple means. His prize possession was his horse – a strong, dark steed that he loved like a son. Once a nobleman passed the area and saw the steed. He offered the man any sum in exchange for the steed, to which the man did not acquiesce. The nobleman upped the price, cajoled and persuaded but the man refused to give up.

Now, this man used to travel every week to the nearby town on his horse for supplies. On one such occasion, he was travelling through the woods when he came upon a beggar – haggard looking and apparently exhausted. Upon enquiry, the beggar told that he had been walking towards the town and was too tired to continue.

The man immediately offered to help the beggar and asked him to mount the horse. The beggar mounted the horse and started laughing… it was the nobleman in disguise! The nobleman taunted that he could have offered any price for the horse and now thanks to the man’s foolishness, he would take away the horse for free!

The man bowed, and asked the nobleman to take the horse, but never reveal the story to the world. Nobleman asked why, and the man responded – “If people come to know how the horse was deceitfully taken away, people will lose their faith in trust. Tomorrow there may be a genuine victim who may not be treated nicely because of what you have committed.”

The point of this story lies in this post on Stirrup Queens. If you have not read it as yet, go check it out now….it may be quite an eye-opener.
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In other news, I still don’t have AF coming through yet. I POASed today morning and it appears to be a definitive no. All in all it is a matter of when rather than whether.



^WiseGuy^

P.S. – This story is from a text book I had in school. I read this story almost 20 years back….but I thought it was very fitting here.