Discontentment Is A Food For The Mind

A small story:

One man went to the market to buy vegetables for his wife. He bought ladies" fingers, came home and showed it to his wife.

The wife saw the ladies" fingers and said, “Oh! These are so over grown. I will not be able to cook them."

The man went the next day and bought some more ladies" fingers, choosing carefully this time, and came home and showed them to this wife.

The wife said, “What have you bought? They are too tender to make the dish I had in mind."

The next day, the man went to the market, prayed to the shopkeeper and said, “Please give me some good ladies" fingers that are neither too ripe nor too tender."The shopkeeper picked the best ladies" fingers himself and the man took them home and showed them to his wife.

The wife saw them and said, “What? You"ve bought ladies" finger today also!"
(Loud laughter!)

Appreciation never comes spontaneously for many of us. When we cannot appreciate spontaneously, it means that we are having a complaining or discontented nature in us. Actually, discontentment is food for our mind.

To be discontented is like giving some food for the mind to chew. The mind will feed on it and keep itself busy. What happens when we feel too contented? The mind becomes starved. It doesn"t know what to do. It starts searching for its food!

One lady went to a shoe store.

She asked for shoes to fit her feet and the salesman patiently showed her many pairs of shoes. She tried on one after another and felt that none of them fitted her perfectly.

Finally, the salesman showed her one pair and asked her to try them on.

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