Life often reveals its profound spiritual truths in the most ordinary moments. One day, I was at a stationery shop waiting for the shopkeeper's attention, who was too busy because of the rush of customers, as schools were going to open after summer vacation.

In the meanwhile, a man with his two daughters, looking rich from their appearances, entered the shop. In no time, the shopkeeper passed greetings to him through his nod. The man asked the shopkeeper to show some erasers, lead pencils and pencil sharpeners. The shopkeeper placed on the counter different varieties and brands of the said stationery.

Beside the rich man's daughters were standing two other girls, a little younger than the rich man's daughters, with their mother. They, too, were choosing the stationery which was of inferior quality. Their mother took a pair of each stationery item and pushed the remaining stationery items away from her daughters.

The moment the rich man's daughters took stationery in bulk as if for the whole year, the other little girls looked with longing from........

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