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Tale of "small good"
This story makes me anxious because it overlaps with Japanese overprotective child rearing, education, society etc.
There was an old man living by the lake where birds stop by on the way to warmer countries in every winter. One year, there is no food due to a cold wave around the lake so that the birds cannot move. The old man starts to feed them everyday out of pity. Thus the number of birds that stop by the lake increases year by year. And then birds forget to migrate depending on his caring through years. One winter, the old man dies. As a result, hundreds of poor birds cannot get any food from anyone and die of hunger. This old man's caring is an example of "small good".
If he had had "big good", he would not have had to let a great number of birds starve to death giving in to temptation of saving a small number of birds from hunger.------passion for success-----