Fable: an old story

An
ancient story

A man wanted to know what happiness is, so he decided to go and
ask other people, yet to no avail. A cobbler told him that it is in
making shoes and showed him how to do it. A soldier told him that it
is in fighting battles and not dying, while a general told him that
it is in planning and winning them. An emperor told him that it is in
being loved by his subjects so that they will willingly serve him and
his family. A fisherman told him that it is in catching the fish. A
mother told him that it is in having a child. A dancer told him that
it is grace and harmony. A traveller told him that it is in having a
new place to wake up to each day. The man despaired. He decided not
to talk to anyone anymore and just watch. He noticed that people who
are surrounded by many people have smiles on their faces and are
given a lot of attention so he became one of them. He left them just
as swiftly as he joined. He noticed that people who are wearing
expensive fabrics, bright colours and jewellery get a lot of
attention and approval from everyone so he decided to try that out.
Yet, as a result, he found himself, feeling more empty and confused
than before, so he lost the colourful outfits and assumed his own
dress again.  A hermit caught his attention, who lived alone in a
cave, not talking to people and eating only that what the forest had
to offer. The man assumed hermit-hood yet only to discover that
loneliness torments his soul, and wisdom that he discovered, has no
application, thus feeds on him and eats his brain away. The man gave
up his hermetic admonition and noticed a drunk. He saw a bottle in
his hand and a smile on his face and there were a few more drunks
that the drunk could be jolly with. The man approached them yet soon
saw that the drunk's wife was angrily chasing him inside the house
with a broomstick, shouting at him and demanding. The man disliked
this. He soon found himself by a university where students and men
and women of great learning resided. The learned were there to pass
their accumulated knowledge onto the learning and guide them on their
path. The man decided to speak with them, yet soon finding that he
has overcome them all in learning and wisdom so their conversation
was empty to him.  He went on and encountered beasts in the forest.
Yet he was a stranger to them not knowing their ways and not sharing
their desires. Towards the dusk of his years, just before laying
himself down onto his death bed, the man approached a stream with
fresh water and looked inside. He was mesmerised....he took a
powerful gun: Welther P99 by Walter and blew his brains out. This was
because of the realisation that his whole life was wasted and now
having found that what he was looking for he only had brisk moments
to enjoy it.

Moral: whatever you put here.

Possible morals:

(Why possible? Why morals?)

The man is still alive.

I can not give you one

There isn't one

It's all in the story

You are the story

Read the story backwards, does it make a difference.

Why, didn't you see the moral : the one true immutable moral of
the story reading backwards???!!!What are you -STUPID????

Per Aspera Ad Astra

'Be silent unless what you have to say is better than silence'

A lorry

A huge big yellow lorry

I am in love.

Do you really want me to go on?

Why can't it be

I know that you/I know I know you know that what /// I know about
you knowing that what I know, you and I both very knowledgably know
about, not knowing. (Truth value in Language.)

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