Short Story: The unemployed beggar became a Bank Manager

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Ron Oloid had been unemployed for many years now. He just did not know how to apply for a job, and nor did he know what type of job that he would be best suited for. Ron just was afraid, and hesitant, of putting himself in the pack of hyenas going for each job. Why didn't someone just hand him a job on a platter? The procedure of looking for work in this day, and age, was a nightmare. And so, Ron stayed living on the streets of his capital city, relying on his getting handouts from others passing him by. Then one day, a man passed Ron, and said to him: "Life is passing you by, as much as we people are too. We throw you the odd coin, but what does life throw you? Grab that, and you are made, my man." Ron looked at the man, and he replied: "Life throws me here on this street, that is all that life does for me. But, thanks for a word of advice, along with your coin." The man winked, as he walked off, as he said again: "Grab opportunity, but more importantly grab it with your life." "There is a job going for you in my firm, if you want it." Ron stood up from his seating position on the pavement. "Of course, I want it," he said. Ron went with the man, and entered a large bank, where he was taken down into the safe, and told to count the gold bars there, as a part of the yearly stocktake, requirement. "Any man could do that," he thought to himself, and so that was his first step in becoming the future manager of that bank, of which the other man was the owner. The bank was a privately owned bank, and the man was a wealthy gold miner/industrialist. He gave a life back to the beggar, who took it with open arms. Sometimes life does go our way, but we still need to stand up, and walk with it too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Money might sometimes cost too much, but life never does.