the most foolish traveler in the world ….

once upon a time, thare A foolish traveler was on a journey. Why was he foolish? Well, because he was fooled by everyone he met!

Everywhere he went, the villagers made up all kinds of sad stories to tell him, and the traveler fell for every one of them.

Pretty soon, his money, his clothes, even his shoes had been cheated away from him. But, since the traveler was a fool, even the villagers thanked him with lies saying “you saved me!”, he believed them and keep saying

“be happy, be happy!”

In the end the traveler become bare-naked, and was so ashamed so he went inside the forest.

But this time he met the monsters living in the forest, the monsters wanted to eat the traveler’s body, so they began to trick him with lies. Of course the traveler fell for it, so he gave away his legs and arm, one by one. In the end, the traveler only had his head left. Then, he gave away his eyes to the last monster, as the monster ate the traveler’s ayes, it said..

“thank you, I’ll give you a present in return” and left something behind

but, it was just a piece of paper that had “fool” written on it

yet the traveler began to cry

“Thank you! thank you! I’ve never gotten a present before! I’m happy, so happy!! He said, and pour tears out his already gone ayes, and then  traveler died soon after……

Taken from episode 11, Fruits Basket ~ a rare gem of an anime

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What do you think about the story?

Some people may say the traveler really is stupid, so he got exactly what he deserve…

But other may think, true that he was a fool, but he also kind, and in the matter of doing something good he doesn’t think about winning or losing. And we know that even though he died in-somehow-pathetic-pose, he died in peace and with smile…..

In the end, isn’t that what we all dream of?  🙂

Do you realize that doing the right things is not always easy or fun to begin with?

But somehow, we do it anyway……

Because, we owe that to our heart, we need to be able to have a good night sleep…

The sleep that we earn, because we know for sure that today, we’ve done our very best to do something good.  So if, somehow death comes in our sleep, we will welcome him, and just die with smile and in peace….