The fish loved the river. It felt blissful swimming around in its clear blue waters. One day while
swimming closer to the river banks it hears a voice say, “hey, fish, how is the water?”
The fish raises its head above the water and sees a monkey seated on a branch of a tree.
The fish replies, “The water is nice and warm, thank you”.
The monkey feels jealous of the fish and wants to put it down. It says, “why don’t you come out of
the water and climb this tree. The view from here is amazing!”
The fish feeling a little sad, replies, “I don’t know how to climb a tree and I cannot survive without
water”.
Hearing this the monkey makes fun of the fish saying, “you are totally worthless if you cannot climb
a tree!”
The fish starts thinking about this remark day and night and becomes extremely depressed, “yes,
the monkey is right”, it would think, “I cannot even climb a tree, I must be worthless.”
A sea-horse sees the fish feeling all depressed and asks it what the reason was. Upon knowing the
reason, the sea-horse laughs and says, “If the monkey thinks you are worthless for not being able to
climb the tree, then the monkey is worthless too cause it cannot swim or live under water.”
Upon hearing this the fish suddenly realized how gifted it was; that it had the ability to survive under
water and swim freely which the monkey never could!
The fish feels thankful to nature for giving it such an amazing ability.
Moral of the story:
This story takes from Einstein’s quote, “Everybody is a genius.
