Acres of Diamonds.

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Hafiz was a Farmer in Africa, who was happy and content. He was Content because he was Happy. One day a wise man came to him and told him about the glory of diamonds and the power that goes along with them.

 The Wise man said; if you had a diamond the size of your thumb, you could buy your own city. If you had a diamond the size of your fist you could probably own your own country.

 And the wise man left, that night, Hafiz could not sleep. He was Unhappy because he was discontented and discontented because he was Unhappy.

 The next morning Hafiz made arrangements to sell his farm, took care of his family and went in search of Diamonds.

 He looked all over Africa, and could not find any. He looked all through Europe and could not find any. By the time he got to Spain he was Emotionally, Physically and Financially Depleted.

 He was so disheartened that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Barcelona River.

 Back home, the person who had bought his farm was watering the camels at the stream that ran through the property. Across the stream, the rays of the morning sun hit a stone and made it sparkle like a rainbow.

 He thought the stone would look good in his living room. He picked up the stone and put it in his mantel piece. That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone 
Sparkling. He asked, ‘’ Is Hafiz back?’’. The new owner said, ’No, why do you ask?’’.

 The wise man said ‘’because that is a diamond. The man said, ‘No, that’s just a stone I picked up from the stream, come I’ll show you, there are many more.’’

They went and picked some samples and sent them for analysis, sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found out that the Farm was indeed covered with Acres of Diamonds!

Wow! Lots of Lessons to learn from this story; but one important lesson is that when our attitude is right, we realize that we are all working on Acres and Acres of Diamonds.

 Opportunities are always under our feet, all we need to do is to recognise them.

 What is your own interpretation of the story? Please feel free to share.

Thanks.

Regards,
DammyInspire.


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