Something reminded me of a short story which was part of the course in my tenth std.
The story was 'Tom whitewashes the fence' by Mark Twain. It is a part of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'.
In the story Tom was given the work of whitewashing the fence by his aunt. When his friends saw him doing this they started making fun of him working on a holiday.
Tom came up with a brilliant idea of play-acting as though whitewashing the fence was a cool thing to do... even better than spending a day at the beach ;)
His friends were so convinced by his act that they traded watever goodies they had with them to whitewash the fence. And had he not run out of whitewash they were more friends who were willing to trade.
Smart Tom got his work done and got lot of goodies. Or were his friends fool to trade things to whitewash :)
Moral of the story: 'Work is something which one is forced to do and the same thing become play when it is difficult to get' :)
1 comment:
yeah, that's true! Tom sawyer was a hero when i was around 6 or 7 i guess...remmeber reading the book over and over..
on the same lines there's a calvin and hobbes strip abt when calvin has to make a leaf collection. and there's leaf lying around when he and hobbes are out on a nice afternoon. so hobbes says "here's a nice leaf, do you want it for your collection?" and calvin says,No. Hobbes- "Why not?" Calvin - "It's a beautiful afternoon! I'm not going to waste it doing ridiculous busywork for school!" Hobbes-"But this would be one less leaf you'd need to collect later." Calvin - "Yeah, but it's one MORE leaf than I need right now. " :)
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