Don’t forget your key

THERE were two brothers who lived at the top of an 80-storey building. On reaching home one day, they found, to their dismay, that the lifts were not working and that they would have to climb all the way up.

Panting hard after struggling to the 20th floor, they decided to leave their bags there and pick them up the next day. Then they continued climbing ...

By the time they reached the 40th level, they were dead tired and irritable. The younger brother began to grumble and before they knew it, a quarrel had broken out. The pair exchanged words all the way up another 20 floors.

When they realised that they just had 20 more to go, they decided to keep the peace and step up the pace. Silently they plodded on until, at last, they reached their apartment. Each stood calmly before the door and waited for the other to open it.

Suddenly, the brothers remembered that their keys were in their bags, which they’d left on the 20th floor!

Many of us are like them. We climb the building called “career”, often right to the very top. But do we know that the key to happiness lies in the bag which we have left behind?

“If the chariot of your life is driven by the seeds of ambition, make sure the reins of your life are held by the hands of joy.”