Grandfather's story collection | 30 January 2017 19:47:36 PST
Yesterday my grandpa told me a story: A father took his son to have lunch at a restaurant, and ordered two bowls of noodles. One bowl had an egg on top, and the other bowl had no egg on top. The father asked his son, “Which bowl of noodles do you want?” The son reaches for the bowl of noodles with the egg on top before his father even finishes asking, and gulps down the egg and noodles. The father does not say anything, and finishes his bowl of noodles. The son then realises that his father had two eggs – but the eggs were at the bottom of the bowl, so the son couldn’t see at first. The father said, “I let you pick first, and I know that you want the bowl with the egg on top. I am hoping, however, that you will learn to think of others and not just yourself first all the time.” The son ignores his father’s lesson and wishes he had chosen the bowl without the egg on top. A few days later, the father takes his son out for lunch again, and orders two bowls of noodles again – one with an egg on top, and one without. He asks his son to choose, and the son chooses the bowl of noodles without the egg on top. However, after searching through the entire bowl, the son does not find any eggs, and is extremely upset. At the end of the meal, his father said, “You are still being greedy and only thinking of yourself, hoping that you would get more eggs. Therefore you have not. You still have not learned the lesson.” The next time the father takes his son to lunch, upon being asked which bowl of noodles he preferred, the son responded, “You can pick first, father. I am okay with having either bowl.” The father selects a bowl and hands the other bowl to his son. Each had one egg in his bowl of noodles. I told my eight-year-old sister this story. I asked her which bowl of noodles she would choose. Her response: “I wouldn’t mind.” Then she added: “Actually, I don’t like eggs.”
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