Club 99: Part 2

 

Gold Coins.... so many of them. He could hardly believe it. He called his wife to show her the coins.

 

He then took the bag to a table and emptied it out and began to count the coins. Doing so, he realized that there were 99 coins and he thought it was an odd number so he counted again, and again only to come to the same conclusion... 99 Gold Coins.

 

He began to wonder, what could have happened to that last 1 coin?  For no one would leave 99 coins. He began to search his entire house, and looked around his backyard for hours, not wanting to lose out on that one coin.  Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to make up for that 1 Gold coin to make his entire collection an even 100 Gold Coins.

 

He got up the next morning, in an extremely horrible mood, shouting at the children and his wife for his delay, not realizing that he had spent most of the night conjuring ways of working hard so that he had enough money to buy himself that gold coin. He went to work as usual - only not in his usual best mood, singing happily - as he grumpily did his daily errands.  Seeing the man’s attitude change so drastically, the King was puzzled. He promptly summoned his assistant to his chambers. The King related his thoughts about the servant and once again, his assistant listened.  The King could not believe that the servant who until yesterday had been singing away and was happy and content with his life had taken a sudden change of attitude, even though he should have been happier after receiving the gold coins.

 

To this the assistant replied “Ah! But your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club.” He explained: “The 99 Club is just a name given to those people who have everything but yet are never contented, therefore they are always working hard and striving for that extra 1 to round it out to 100!

 

We have so much to be thankful for and we can live with very little in our lives, but the minute we are given something bigger and better, we want even more!

 

We are not the same happy contented person we used to be, we want more and more and by wanting more and more we don’t realize the price we pay for it.  We lose our sleep, and our happiness; we hurt the people around us just as a price to pay for our growing needs and desires. That is what joining The 99 Club is all about.”

 

Hearing this the King decided that from that day onwards, he was going to start appreciating all the little things in life.

 

Striving for more is always good, but let’s not strive so hard and for so much that we lose all those near and dear to our hearts, we shouldn’t compromise our happiness for moments of luxuries!

 

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” -1 Timothy 6:10.