The story of miser and his gold (moral explanation)

Allrounder Das
5 min readJan 11, 2024

It was a very very long ago when there was a miser called Mr. Hunkins used to live in a small piece of land which was inherited by his great grandfather. He was the last of his family, a returned heir, for whom he was proud and understood in his actions. But while controlling himself, he was always sad about one thing. He was poor and always cursed his ancestors that they did not leave him any kind of treasure or land. Everything was going well, when one day suddenly he saw a cart of gold appearing behind his small bungalow. Which was out of blue. Without thinking about where this thing came from and how it came, he hid it inside his long gown.

That’s where the things started to get interesting. He hid his treasure near a small corn field which he own it with a low price and less workers. Every morning he would wake up and take a bath, dressing up as if he was going out. He would go to the same field every day and look at his hidden treasure. Every day he would look at his treasure from its hidden place and hide it back. Even sometimes he would add extra of his saving which he earn on daily basis and he was that greedy he do not use it in order to get the increase amount at last. But one day when he went to look for his treasure from his hidden place, it disappeared. When Hankins saw that the treasure was missing, he was not at all sure. Where else his golden treasure be which he view it everyday and who else would know about his secret whereabouts other than him? He became so restless that he started crying even he started cursing the employees around him. Seeing him crying, people started to gather in groups. One of them asked, “Why… what happened, why are you crying?”. He replied, “Someone has stolen my precious thing” and then started crying. Again someone asked, “How does it look like?”

Imaginatively, while gesturing, he said, “It was such a big bag that I kept my precious treasures in it.” Again started to cry terribly mentioning, “Last night a robber must have took my gold and ran away with it.” The workers asked, “Before robbery of your treasure, what did you do with it?”. Miser said, “I used to come every day to check it ?” All the people there looked at each other after listening to the old man. After some moment one of them said sarcastically to the old man, “You can come everyday and see the pit instead of sleeping in it”. The miser was standing there unable to anything about his stolen treasure.

So we all know the what exactly the moral says about the following story and yeah the ending of this story was quite sad. Isn’t it? The moral says about “The story of Miser and his Gold”, “A possession is as worthy as its usage.” In the story above, the miser’s gold was useless as he was never going to spend or use it for something. He only kept looking at his wealth and gloating over his gains. As simple it is. Now let’s just focus on what is the actual meaning of “possession” in now a days in our lives. It’s simple it’s nothing just an ownership on something or control over something. NO, not in a negative ways but in actually who you own most of the time and that is to yourself. Lemme ask you, do you have a positive control over yourself? Well no matter what your answers will be to the review, but let me just put it in a very straight manner. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR INNER PEACE START WORKIN’ ON THAT PART THE MOST. Because as human after you being capable of doing everything, literally everything including doing your own work, chores etc. You see the moment you lose control over yourself, people try to take advantage of it. Mainly the society you are well acquainted with the most. No matter your friends, your loved one, your relatives. They try to get through your thought process, your inner piece. Remember the valuable treasure, that’s your inner child your inner peace. Basically your mental health. That’s where you need to take charge of your mental health and your inner peace. You know, in now a days it is been a huge impact on every human being they have to go through their rough phase of their life. Apparently it is very necessary to add perfection to ones life. That’s where we need to have a clear calculation about what need to be done and what don’t need to be done. Here is why? As you know our mind is a horse without reins, or our mind is a free football. Which keeps moving around as per its wish. Just like seeing a sweet mango, people want to pick it. Like your free will, your open minded heart, unintentionally they start to add impact on you about the seriousness about life. Even your charm getting fade. It seems like as if they have more importance in their life than you. People started to take for granted. At that point you will be the one who will end up getting hurt and alone, the moment you started to listen to them or start to impress them.

They will make a huge mess by making you believe about something which you have never seen or done before. You will get brain-washed in such a manner as if their is no escape to it. It will blind fold you, like you are the only one who have been going through this or sometimes person will behave as if you are the one who keeps hurting him. But only you know the truth and only you have the solution. This entire which will lead you to the depression, the anxiety or what people are thinking about you. Your mind will became the football of other point of opinion. Kind humans understand you have given the main treasure or the possession of your life. Like I said you gave your own reins of life to someone else to whom you don’t matter at all. Like the miser seeing his treasure every single day even adding penny to double the amount out of greed but end up got stolen by thief. On the other hand if he had it secured and used it wisely then the story would be otherwise. Then where would be the fun learning about morals and me here explaining about it. So be kind to everything about yourself. If anything happen to you in the first place you one only one who is responsible for that. You know they say your health your responsibility. Live your life freely. Think about it.

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