The 99 Club!

The 99 Club!

Dear kids,

Here's a wonderful short story that I got from a cousin of mine. Enjoy!

 

Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content.

 

One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the Land, unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much joy.

 

The King asked the servant "Why are you so happy?"

The man replied: "Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family and I don't need too much - just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill our
tummies."

 

The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor.

 

After hearing the King's woes and the servant's story, the advisor said
"Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made part of The
99 Club."

 

"The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?" the King inquired.

The advisor replied, "Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's doorstep."

 

DONE!

When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy... So many gold coins!

He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were only 99 coins.

 

He wondered "What could've happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no
one would leave 99 coins! "

He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive.

Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection.

 

From that day, the servant's life was changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100^th gold coin. He stopped singing while he worked.

 

Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled.

 

When he sought his advisor's help, the advisor said "Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club."

He continued "The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they're always yearning and striving for that extra 1 telling to themselves: "Let me get that one final thing and  then I will be happy for life."

 

We can be happy, even with very little in our lives, but the minute we're given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep,
our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price for our growing needs and desires. That's what joining The 99 Club is all about."

"HOPE WE WILL NEVER JOIN THIS "99" CLUB."

Happy reading!

Uncle N

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Little Ramesh scores "A" in Maths

Little Ramesh scores "A" in Maths

Little Ramesh was doing very badly in maths. His parents had tried everything; tutors, flash cards, special learning centres, in short, everything they could think of. Finally in a last ditch effort, they took Ramesh down and enrolled him in the local Catholic School.

After the first day, little Ramesh comes home with a very serious look on his face. He doesn't zoom out to play with his friends, as usual. Nor does he sit in front of TV and start watching Cartoon Network.

Instead, he goes straight to his room & starts studying. Books & papers are spread out all over the room and little Ramesh is hard at work. His mother is amazed. She calls him down to dinner and to her shock, the minute he is done he marches back to his room without a word and in no time he is back hitting the books as hard as before. This goes on for sometime, day after day while the mother tries to understand what made all the difference.

Finally, little Ramesh brings home his report card. He quietly lays it on the table and goes up to his room and hits the books. With great trepidation, his mom looks at it and to her surprise, little Ramesh got an A in maths. She can no longer hold her curiosity. She goes to his room and says: "Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?"

Little Ramesh looks at her and shakes his head "No".

"Well then", she replies, "was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms, WHAT was it?".

Little Ramesh looks at her and says, "Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around.

Happy reading!

Uncle N

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