Billu and Kullu

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

“How was the day today?” The pillow asked thinking the brain would have had a better day in the workplace after a weekend. The brain said “Another hectic day. ““Hmm… you need some rest then.. “ The pillow said. “I need peace...” saying that the brain took a long breather. “Hmm, then there is trouble.” the pillow asked.. The brain who was already annoyed said “Am so sincere in the place of work and honest not just that, am also working tirelessly and am still not rewarded.” It continued “What is the point if your honesty is not rewarded..?” The pillow said “why do you need recognition? Why don’t you simply enjoy whatever you do?” The pillow continued “The order of the day is different. Only the accomplished can now speak about honesty, sincerity and humbleness. The people on the path of accomplishment have to have attitude.” The brain said “what do you mean” The pillow quickly responded “Attitude is not wrong as long as you have the right one.” The brain said “you are confusing. What is the right attitude?” The pillow said “Okay. Then listen to this story of Billu and Kullu.”
The pillow started the story “Once there lived a rich man by name Manav. He was a cook. He was so famous and every one used to go crazy over his cooking. Everyone in the town invited him to cook at their residence for any kind of occasion. Soon a beautiful girl by the name Parvati fell in love with his cooking and married him. They lived a happy life. After a few years they had twin sons. Manav thought that it was a gift from God and named the sons as Billu and Kullu. The twins were not just quite identical in appearance but also in habits and grew up very fast. One day Parvati died because of a strange disease. Manav became lonely and he stopped to go to work and soon the family had the meltdown. Manav also became very weak and he was also lying on his death bed. He called for Billu and Kullu. He said that he loved his wife so much and never cared for the boys and also said that the best he can do is to pass on his tricks of the trade to them and some money that he saved in bank so that they can do something for the living and he died.
Billu and Kullu wanted to make big money and separated and started a restaurant in their names. Billu engaged people to work for him and said that the whoever cooks the best and serves the customer quickly and happily will be rewarded at the end of the month while Kullu employed few people and said that whoever makes the maximum revenue will be rewarded. Soon Kullu started to make money while Billu business was quite average though successful. Billu had repeated customers and only one new customer daily while Kullu had so many. As a result of this Kullu increased the rates of the recipes and increased the incentive targets as well. Billu did increase the price marginally but the customer flow was constant. As the targets were revised the employee of Kullu started to concentrate on sales than anything else. The customers were paying more and got less service and the business started to decline. At some point there was nobody in Kullu’s restaurant. While Billu had the same and Kullu looked up to Billu to save him and asked him the magic recipe that makes the customers to come back again. Billu said there was no secret recipe and indeed shared the same recipe as Kullu’s however his target was not the accomplishment (Money) but service. Then they lived happily ever after…”
Now the brain was quiet, the pillow continued to speak “It’s not always your accomplishments that keep you high but your attitude. Billu had the right attitude so he succeeded. So keep the right attitude never satisfy for smaller gains but always have a big dream to achieve.” Then the brain said “Am quite convinced now, Let me have a dream now..Will see you later…”
To be continued...