‘Goodness’ comes back again and again!!
In Scotland, Britain, there was a poor farmer named Fleming. One day he was working on his farm. Suddenly someone screaming was heard from nearby. The farmer threw his equipment and tools and quickly rushed towards the sound.
Going in the direction of the sound, he saw that a child was trapped in the swamp. , The boy was struggling to come out trapped in the mud till his waist. He was also trembling with fear and was screaming.
The farmer hurriedly took out a long branch of the tree. Playing on his life, he barely pulled out the child with the help of the twig. The next day a magnificent car came and stood in front of that farmer’s small hut. A gentleman dressed in expensive clothes got down from it.
Introducing himself to the farmer, he said- “I am the father of that child and my name is Randolph Churchill.”
Then the rich man said that he has come to repay the favor of you for saving my child.
That farmer named Fleming looked at the gentleman from above and turned down his offer.
He said, “I will not take any money for what I did. It is my duty to save someone, there is humanity, and humanity has no value.
Meanwhile, Fleming’s son came to the door of the hut.
Suddenly the sight of that rich gentleman went there and he got an idea.
He asked – “Is this your son?”
The farmer said proudly – “Yes!”
The man started talking afresh and said to the farmer- “Okay if you don’t agree with my price, then let me take the burden of your son’s education on myself. I will arrange for him to get the same level of education that I am getting my son. Then your son will grow up to be a person we both will be proud of.”
The farmer thought, “Whether I will be able to get my son that much higher education nor will I be able to get enough facilities so that he can become a big man. Therefore, it is better to accept this offer.
Fleming was ready for the future of the child. Now Fleming’s son got a chance to study in the best school. Moving on, he did his graduation from the prestigious St Mary’s Medical School in London.
Then this son of the farmer became famous all over the world as the inventor of “Penicillin”, the great scientist Sir Alexander Fleming.
This story does not end here! After some years, the son of the rich man got pneumonia,
And his life was saved only by injection of penicillin.
The name of the son of that rich Randolph Churchill was – Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of Britain twice!
Isn’t it a surprising coincidence?
That is why it is said that one should always keep doing good deeds. Good work can be done anywhere, anytime, and there is no need to find any time for it because the work done by us eventually comes back to us.
That is, the ‘goodness’ keeps on coming back again and again! Truly every step taken towards humanity will prove to be a milestone in alleviating our own anxieties.
Do some noble work today. And to believe that we will definitely get its many-fold benefits back…
