The milkmaids dreams

Once upon a time, there lived a young milkmaid, who filled her pots with milk and would go to market to sell it. One day she began dreaming on her way to the market. She said to herself with the money I make from selling this milk this time, I will buy some chickens and then make more money by selling the chicken’s eggs when they grow up and then with the egg money I will be rich and buy 2 more calfs and when they grow big and give me more milk I will be more rich and then I will buy me a beautiful dress of silk and a king on a horse will look at me in my beautiful dress of silk and want to marry me! and then I will become a queen and dance in happiness like this in my beautiful castle and as she started dancing her pail of milk slipped from her hands and spilled out and mixed with the soil and she was horrified as her dream of becoming a queen was shattered to pieces as all the milk was covered in dust.

Wisdom, Life lessons and Rules-One must have realistic acheivable goals and work hard to achieve them instead of just dreaming of unrealistic dreams.

Credits: The Panchatantra translated by Chandra Rajan.