The Widow and the Hen, a tale by Aesop, a Greek slave who lived some 2,500 years ago is still timeless today.  I have several collections Aesop’s tales and I’ll be sharing some of my favorites over the next few days. I hope you enjoy thinking about them as much as I do. 

A poor widow living alone in the country kept a faithful hen. Each morning like clockwork, the hen laid a big brown egg, which the woman promptly enjoyed for breakfast.

One day the widow thought to herself: “Now if I were to double my hen’s feeding allowance of barley, she would lay me two eggs a day instead of one.”

So, she started feeding her biddy hen a double measure of grains.  Soon the hen began to grow fat, and, the widow thought it was also getting a bit lazy. It wasn’t too long before the hen stopped laying eggs altogether.

The Moral of the Story: Set boundaries on desires, for greed can make us risk losing what we had — and it won’t make a hen lay more eggs either.

I’m @DianGriesel aka a perception analyst & strategist; creative attitude disrupter & adjuster; author of The Silver Disobedience Playbook & TurboCharged: The Silver Disobedience Edition; and the blogger & model known as @SilverDisobedience  More info on my websites (search my name) and at Wilhelmina Models. Silver Disobedience® is a Registered Trademark.