Golden eggs...

Why do we end up killing the hen that lays golden eggs!?

I have a vague graphic memory of this story from Tinkle Comics... once and perhaps still the most popular comic book among children in India. It was this farmer who gets this hen that lays golden eggs every day... eggs of pure gold... and quite obviously the farmer goes onto become very rich. However... his greed eventually gets to him... and he tears open the stomach in search for the source of all the infinite gold... and expectedly enough... finds nothing... ends up killing the hen, loosing the source of all his riches.

I guess the same applies to all of us in our lives... we are so taken in by greed that conservation never comes to us. And the funny thing is that we also do know that what we are doing is wrong... yet we don't learn!

I guess this has something to do with human nature... we always want more... and in our quest for more... we do such stupid things that we end up loosing everything. Or perhaps all of us think like Oscar Wilde is believed to have said or written...

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing Succeeds like excess"