The Greedy Priest's Dream

Once upon a time, there lived a priest in a small town by the country side. He was a very miser priest. One day he recieved barley and wheat as offerings and after eating some of it he decided to store the rest in a pot. After that he hung the pot on a nail and placed his bed under the pot and fell asleep there.

As he was sleeping he began to drift away in the wonderful world of dreams and started to dream about various things.

As the night went on he started to dream about how when there will be a famine in the town, he will sell the barley and wheat he stored away at higher rates making a profit and will buy goats. After that he will raise the goats to have children and then he will sell those goats to buy a cow. After extracting milk from cow and selling the milk for sometime and use the money to buy a piece of land for farming. After that he will also buy a buffalo and horses.

The miser priest was now fully lost in the wonderful world of dreams. He began to think that he will use the buffalo to plough his land and sell the harvest for huge profits. And he will sell horses at an ever higher rate to earn more money and then use that money to buy gold. Then he will sell gold at a good price and use the money to build a big house near his land to live in.

He began to imagine after seeing his wealth anyone would want to marry their daughter to him. He began to dream about how he will marry a beautiful girl and have a child with her. After having a child he will name his son Michael and daughter Nancy

He dreamed about when his son and daughter will start walking he will watch him from afar and enjoy the moments. He also dreamed about how he will buy clothes and toys for his children and take them to carnivals.

He thought when the children will bother me, I will call my wife and lecture her about how she can't properly raise a child and as she will be busy with her housework i will go to her and shout about how she cant do anything.

As he was thinking about this the priest raised his hand up in the air and hit the pot filled woth barley and the pot breaks.

In this way the pot filled barley and wheat broke along with the priest's vivid dreams.

MORAL OF THE STORY--

So, from this story we learn that while doing any work we should never get greedy. As the fruit of greed is never sweet.

We also learn that we should work hard to fulfill our dreams and not hope that the will fullfill by themselves.

We also learn never be in a toxic relationship or marriage

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