A lesson in life

I want it

The story goes that a long time ago, somewhere in an old English Town park, sat an old lady. She was feeding the birds as she had done happily for many days.

An agitated man arrived with a desperate look in his eyes and demanded some money.

The old lady calmly took out her purse.

"I want all of it", the man demanded.

The old lady looked at him and said "If you need it so badly then you do not need to take it, it is mine to give and I give it happily to you". "Because you have committed no crime you do not need to run as no one will know what has happened here, no one except for you and I".

The man snatched at the purse and ran away.

The next day the old lady was back in the park feeding the birds.

A man approached her. It was the man from yesterday.

But he looked different somehow.

When he reached the old lady he held out the purse, and said, "I don't want this. I want what you have that enabled you to give me your purse".