The Parable of The Golden Egg
- Temitope Theophilus Oladele
- May 6, 2018
- 2 min read
I've been very rich, influential and with great wealth than anyone in this country. I have preserved the legacy of my progenitors. Said an aging rich father to his only son.
The Golden Egg in that black box is the secret of riches of our family line and a legacy that has been kept and transferred from generation to generation. Inside the golden egg is a diamond
that is worth over 1billion dollars in current market price but you are not expected to break the egg but build another empire around it such as I did. My father handed nothing to me from his wealth saved the egg and I was told to build an empire around the egg just as I'm telling you now and everything you see here, I built from the scratch. My son, just as my father told me, take this egg and build an empire around it and let not your own son or daughter inherit nothing from what you have built but the egg. A month after the conversation, the rich father died and the only asset from the empire will to the son was the golden egg. The young man thought of how wicked the father was to have left him to suffer and that it is high time the egg is hatched. The next morning, he hatched the egg and met a note that reads " the secret to greatness is nothing but 'hard work and perseverance' and not intelligence or inheritance." The young man was very sorrowful not to have found diamond in the egg but a useless note. He narrated his frustration to his best friend who screamed "I've found it" because that let loose the genie from his Aladdin lamb and he (the friend) went ahead to build a business conglomerate. The same young man who is now very poor was invited to give a speech at the anniversary of the foundation his father will-ed his entire empire to and as he told the story of how the 200 years old note has been kept as a legacy and a gardener in the audience use the secret to build his enterprise into a global business. After 15years of living from hand to mouth and hearing testimonies of how his story has been used by people as magic wand to build business and career empires, he decided to heed to his father's advice, worked and persevered very hugely until he became a very rich farmer thereafter decided to rebuild the golden egg riotously hatched and preserve the legacy for generations for come. The ability to work hard and persevere in the face of failure is the golden egg that is in every man and the prime secret of the greatest people that ever lived. If we can harness this Golden Egg then, we can build anything. You are not a failure until you quit trying, the more you try and fail the better you learn to do it better. Let your genie out of the Aladdin lamb of your soul, work hard persistently, stay tough and resolute then success will come asking after you. What is your golden egg and what principle of success is written therein?
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