Why Hard work is Always Better than Begging

 Hard work is the key to success. nothing in this world is impossible for a person who targets to achieve with commitment and hard work. If we give a fried fish to a person without any of his efforts, then he will become habitual of doing nothing and aging the benefit without hard work, but if we teach him how to catch a fish, and use it as his food, then he will be more benefitted and will never try to beg in front of anyone. We can justify this statement by the following story.

There was a school in a village, where children of mostly poor communities were getting their education. No uniform code was there in this school and students used to come in any of their available dresses. Education standards were reasonable but the teachers of this school were very much committed to their job in grooming their students, especially with respect to general ethics. The poor people were earning their livings hardly but were committed to educating the next generation for a better future.

One day there was an announcement by the principal of the school that according to the new policy, every student will have to come in proper uniform. Now, this was very difficult for many of the parents to arrange uniforms for their children but even then all managed to follow the instructions of the principal and within a week almost every student of the school was in proper uniform. There was a student named "Jack" who was a son of a cobbler who remained in his previous dress and his father, being poor, couldn't arrange a new uniform for his son. Teacher of Jack pushed him to come in proper uniform otherwise he will be punished for not following the rules. Jack's father was not able to buy a new uniform for his son so Jack remain without a uniform for a few days. 

One day Jack's teacher shouted at Jack and made him stand on his desk and threatened him to be punished. Jack got afraid and said to his teacher, "My father is a poor person and he can't arrange a uniform for me,. Kindly don't punish me for this, I will leave school from tomorrow onwards". Now teacher got shocked by such a statement from a little student and never wanted Jack to leave the school to spoil his future. So Jack's teacher thought of a solution and told all the students in his class to give their pocket money for that day to Jack for the purchase of the uniform. All the students agreed and gave their pocket money to Jack. But the collected amount was not sufficient for the purchase of the uniform so Jack's teacher told Jack to go to other classes also with the same plea of money collection. 

Jack followed his teacher's instructions but when he entered class II and told the teacher of class II about his demand, the teacher named Sultan refused to accept Jack's plea and ordered all his class students, not to give a penny to Jack. Rather he reprimanded Jack for begging for money from all students. Sultan told Jack, "Return all the money he received from the students and then come to me". Jack did so and then went to Teacher Sultan. Now Sultan asked Jack about any type of task that Jack is able to do. Jack told teacher Sultan that he is the son of a cobbler and he can do the same job.

Teacher Sultan gave Jack some amount as a loan to establish his workstation and do shoe repair and polishing in his spare time to pay back this loan. Similarly, teacher Sultan gave a chit to Jack, addressing a school uniform shopkeeper, to give uniform items to Jack on loan and advising Jack to pay back his loan from his daily earnings. The same was done by Jack and time passed very quickly.

After 20 years there was a sports gala at the same school and the chief guest was a renowned businessman in that area named Mr. Jack. He told the same story to the audience with tears in his eyes and proudly remembered his teacher, Sultan who made him hardworking and refrained him from being.

Moral:  Hard work is Always Better than Begging