Dig your roots deep into the soil

A six year old boy visited a shop every day. He had been wandering round the aisles of the shop looking at the shelves packed with alluring items. Chocolates in shining wrapper, sweets in colorful paper, cookies in tempting shapes…………..But he never touched nor bought anything.

In general, salesmen are well aware of this kind of suspicious people and so keep a watch on them and try to get rid of them as early as possible.

“Hey, why are you just hanging around without buying anything?” asked the salesman gruffly.

“I’m not going to buy anything,” replied the boy calmly

“Then what are you doing here? This is your third time round. Make up your mind what to buy or go home.” 

“I am just training,” said the boy more calmly.

“Training? What training?” asked the puzzled salesman.

“I’m training my honesty.”

“What?” The man looked more puzzled. He has never heard anyone saying anything like this before.

“Hey, How do you do that?” he asked.

“This is how. I pass several times by the shelf with cookies and chocolates and look at them……they look back at me….I tell them, ‘go on…keep looking at me. I don’t care about you. I don’t want you’. At first it wasn’t easy. But by training myself, now I can look at them and pass by easily.”

The salesman was stunned. Here was a boy who was revealing the stunning truth—that of training your honesty.

Thereafter whenever the boy entered the shop, the salesman had a warm smile on his face and proudly told everyone, “Here’s our little boy who trains his honesty”.