Ultimately...

This is a very old story. It is about a brand new Gold coin. Absolutely dazzling and fresh. It was very happy when it came out of the jeweler’s shop.

It was in fact bouncing with joy when it first came into circulation. As every single person, be a child, youth or elderly was attracted towards it.

The coin felt that it was in great demand. It would sometime have the privilege of residing in someone’s safe, sometime in someone’s wallet and sometime even in someone’s pocket.

Many years thus passed by. In a short span of its life the gold coin managed to witness most of the world. And, as the time passed by it became arrogant. As it didn’t find a single human being that was not crazy about it or who didn’t wish to acquire it.

One day, the gold coin reached the hands of the King. The King went to take a bath in the river. After taking his bath he offered the gold coin to the river.

The coin slowly sank into the deep waters and settled down on the river bed.

Once it reached down, the coin sat up, rubbed its eyes and looked around. There was water all around. A variety of small and big creatures were swimming besides it.

The coin thought that here too he would be treated in the same royal manner and these creatures would be running after him. After a while it saw a turtle coming towards it. The coin became alert. The turtle came closer. The turtle saw the coin, took it into its mouth, chewed it well and then spat it back. One by one all other creatures in the river came, chewed the coin and threw it back on the river bed.

Ultimately, the gold coin got embedded in the marshy depths of the river and drowned into oblivion.