There was a man who offered ten cents to his sons. In one hand he held a dime and in the other he held ten pennies. Even though they were equivalent in worth, the foolish son snatched up the ten pennies because there were more coins for him to hold. It satisfied his greed and tickled his pride. The wiser son was glad to take the dime, because all of his wealth could be found in one place. Though there was less qauntity, the dime each penny by itself in quality.
While walking around his home, the foolish son was playing with one of his pennies. Becuase he had nine more pennies and the penny by itself was of little worth, he tossed the coin around carelessly. All of the sudden he slipped and lost his grip on the penny. The penny rolled away from the foolish son down a hill into the ditch. The son was unable to find the penny, but it was only worth one cent, so it really wasn't worth the trouble anyway. However, the foolish son was upset because he now only had 9 cents while his brother still had ten.
That night, while the foolish son was sleeping on the couch, two of his pennies fell out of his pocket into the couch. They were later found by the housekeeper who ended up keeping them for herself. The foolish son was down to only seven cents.
As the days passed, the foolish son continued to lose his pennies until he only had one left. When the foolish son realized he had only one penny left he cherished it becuase, even though it was only worth one cent, by this point this one penny was all the son had left.
The wiser son, who cherished his one dime from the beginning, never lost the dime. It was the only coin he had and if he lost it he would have lost all ten cents. But because the wiser son cherished the dime, and chose to focus his attention on holding onto only one coin, he never lost that dime and still had his ten cents. Because of how they chose, the foolish son started of with ten coins worth ten cents, but ended with one coin worth one cent. The wiser son started off with one coin worth ten cents and ended with the same coin and the same worth.
Moral:
If you come to a point in your life where you need to choose between a group of people that don't mean that much to you and one person who is everything you wanted, choose the dime over the pennies. It'll end better for you.
