Anger is bad
Once upon a time, there
lived two brothers Thongjam and Thungjam in a village named Okaba. One day the
elder brother Thongjam became angry with the younger brother Thungjam because
Thungjam had broken the only bucket they had. In anger Thongjam swung the
broken bucket towards Thungjam. Thungjam was severely hit by the bucket on his
head and started bleeding. But Thongjam did not pay the slightest attention to
the younger brother. The younger brother Thungjam started crying and went out
of the house and went on and on out of village. Thungjam continued on his
travel without thinking about his elder brother because he was angry with his
elder brother for hitting him so severely. Continuously travelling Thungjam
reached a town. Now he was hungry and was remembering his elder brother for
getting something from him to eat. But his brother was nowhere to be found. Now
he realised that he had come to a very far place. He went to a person sitting
in a shop and asked him something to eat. The person said to him that he could
give Thungjam food to eat if Thungjam helped him in shop related works.
Thungjam assented. Thus Thungjam became a servant of a business man. The
business man was very happy with honesty and laborious nature of Thungjam.
Thungjam grew into a well mannered humorous young man. The business man
selected a beautiful girl for him and arranged their marriage. Once the
business man planned to go back to his native town and settle there. So he made
Thungjam the owner of his business of that town. Thungjam was now a very happy
and respectable person of the society.
Thungjam and his wife in due
course of time had a son. When the son grew to the age of five years, they
planned to get him admitted in a school. There was a custom that when a child
became of the age to be able to go to school, the parents of the child used to
organise a feast in which all the close relatives were to be invited.
Thungjam's wife invited her parents for the feast and asked Thungjam also to
invite his relatives. Thungjam sent messengers to invite his mentor, the
businessman. Then he remembered his brother, Thongjam. Thungjam felt very sorry
that he never missed his elder brother, Thongjam. So he decided to invite his
elder brother too to the feast. He set forth for the journey to the village of
Okaba. After reaching there he found that his brother Thongjam was not to be
found. His house was in a very dilapidated condition. He found out from his
neighbours that Thongjam was very sorry for his anger after Thungjam left the
village. So Thongjam went out of the village in search of Thungjam and since
then he never returned. Thungjam got his house repaired and came back to the
town. He was very sorry and missed his elder brother very badly.
Time went by. Thungjam grew
a little old. His son Mapit was now a young man and helped him in his business.
One day Thungjam's son Mapit came with another young man Thouba and informed
Thungjam that Thouba was his friend. Mapit asked a job for Thouba at their
shop. Thungjam acceded to it. So Thouba started working in their shop. One day
Mapit incurred a great loss in the business due to his foolishness. So Thungjam
became very angry and scolded Mapit very severely. In the same evening Mapit
disclosed to Thouba that he was very angry with his father and he would not
work with his father and would go away far to start his own business. Listening
this Thouba said to Mapit that it was not good for Mapit to leave his father
and go away out of anger. Anger is a very bad thing. Thungjam overheard Thouba
speaking this. He was amazed with the wit of the young man Thouba. So he called
Thouba and asked him who had made him learn such good things. Thouba informed
Thungjam that this was his father who had made him learn that anger was a very
bad thing because his father had lost his younger brother because of anger.
Listening this Thungjam suspected whether Thouba's father was his elder brother
Thongjam. So he asked Thouba to take him to his father. And Wow! Thungjam was
amazed to see his elder brother Thongjam. Both the brothers hugged each other
and cried out of happiness. The two families rejoiced with the union and the
young men Mapit and Thouba had learnt a lesson for life.
