OWNING AND DISOWNING IN TIME.. WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?

The parents of 4 children once bought 2 big banana special fruit bunches full of banana fruit to be ripened and kept the same in a corner in their house for consumption by the family over a period of time..

The next day morning, the children had seen this and secretly kept an eye on the bunch. And after sometime, it all started..

• First, the little one secretly took one fruit and ate it off.. 
• Seeing that, his next sibling took one and finished it.. 
• Soon the third one followed and took away one..
• The eldest too casually plucked one and consumed it.. 

Thus continued the eating each repeating his doing even though the bunch of fruit was not fully ripe. A few of the fruit was thus over by evening!

The parents noticed that after a while and quietly understood what would have happened. Instantly, they decided to bring the situation under control through an innovative plan.

They immediately called all the children, in front of them divided the whole bunch into six equal parts, kept two parts for both of them and gave away the remaining 4 parts to the 4 children saying,

• “They are yours from now on wards!” 

The children immediately became attentive and very carefully started protecting their shares. From the next day onwards, each started comparing his with that of others, consumed the fruit slowly over a period as they ripened and thus finished all. In the end, the parents gave away their portions not consumed to the children equally and made them further happy!

Knowing that, the neighborhood family remarked,

“You both have done really a good job!”

The parents replied,

“It's not just eating alone all the fruit properly in time. There are several other good things our children learnt in the process..

• They all came to know how to take care of their own..

• They developed the habit of not touching that belonged to others..

• They started competing among themselves in a healthy way for their own betterment..

• They utilized the items in good condition all along..

And 

• They remained content and happy all the time with what they got with the restlessness vanishing from their minds which was very much there before the division! 

Beyond, the last important learning here was..

• We both the parents too have learnt a valuable lesson that in future, we should start parting with certain of our saved monies equally among our children as they grow up for a cause and in their exigencies of course keeping sufficient funds for us.. 

That will truly result in the monies becoming useful for them for their growth with the responsibility of protecting those excess monies simultaneously taken off from us!”

KEWORDS: OWNING, DISOWNING