The Goatherd and the Wild Goats

                 

        

    A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night. The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold. He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.

   When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them, turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves."

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  Goatherd is the one who leads goats. This one is suited not only for young ones but to all levels of people.  The lesson that I gain in reading this is  "It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones. Old friends cannot be replaced or be sacrificed for new ones" ^_^

  Yes that's true :) Because those old friends are the one who knows us very well and they became an old friend because even though we're on ups and downs, they are still on our side helping and comforting us. They are the one who always understand and accept us whatever we do and whatever our attitudes and physical appearances is. We should treasure them and keep in our life forever. But, it doesn't mean that we should not befriend with others. Being friendly is a good attitude but we should know and identify those real and true friends. :D