Greed--An Endless Desire

                  It was a hot summer day. A lion was feeling very hungry. He came out of his den and searched here and there. He could find only a small hare. He caught the hare with some hesitation. "This hare cannot fill my tummy" thought the lion. 
                  As the lion was about to kill the hare, a deer ran that way. The lion became greedy. He thought, "Instead of eating this small hare, let me eat the big deer". He let the hare go and went behind the deer. But the deer had vanished into the forest. The lion now felt sorry for letting the hare off. 

                   

                  In one way or the other we all behave like this lion. We are not satisfied with what we have, but tend to run behind those things which are not within our reach. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of some thing we don't have but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. We should not become prisoners of our own greed. 
                  Because we cannot have everything we want, we need to focus on what's important in our lives. We should learn to cope with this endless desire.