Game of Life.....

      There once lived a wise man in a village. So it hurt him very much
      when the village headman told him,  "Your son doesn't know, what's
      more valuable, gold or silver."

      The wise man called his son and asked, "What is more valuable - gold
      or silver?"
    
      Gold," said the son.

      "That is correct. Why is it then that the village headman makes fun
      of you & claims you do not know the value of gold or silver? Explain
      this to me, son." Father asked.

      So the son told "Every day on my way to school, the village headman
      calls me to his house. He holds out a silver coin in one hand and a
      gold coin in other. He asks me to pick up the more valuable coin. I
      pick the silver coin. He laughs & makes fun of me. And then I go to
      school. This happens every day. That is why he told you."

      The father was confused. "Why don't you pick up the gold coin?" he
      asked. In response, the son took the father to his room and showed
      him a box. In the box had at least a hundred silver coins. Turning to
      his father, the son said, "The day I pick up the gold coin the game
      will stop. Village headman will stop having fun and I will stop
      making money."


      Moral : Sometimes in life, we have to play the fool. That does not
      mean we lose in the game of life. It just means allowing others to
      win in one arena of the game, while we win in the other arena of the
      game. We have to choose which arena matters to us most.