AFVOA Newletters of Year 2004

Page 145 of 153 125. To which the Minister replied, “Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, you will have to be patient for results and to do the following… Place 99 Gold Coins in a bag an leave it at this servant’s doorstep, you will then understand what The 99 Club is.” 126. That very same evening, the King arranged for 99 Gold coins to be placed in bag at the servant’s doorstep. The next day, the servant was just stepping out of his house when he saw a bag at his doorstep. Wondering about its contents, he took it into his house and opened the bag. When he opened the bag he let out a great big shout of joy.. Gold Coins…so many of them. He could hardly believe! He called his wife to show her the coins and they were beside themselves. He then took the bag to a table and emptied it out and began to count the coins. Doing so, he realized that there were 99 coins and he thought it was an odd number so he counted again, and again and again only to come to the same conclusion…99 Gold Coins. 127. He began to wonder, what could have happened to that last 1 coin? For no one would leave 99 coins. He began to search his entire house, looked around his backyard for hours, not wanting to lose out on that one coin. Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to look harder to find that 1 Gold coin to make his entire collection an even 100 Gold Coins. 128. He searched almost the whole night, had a fitful sleep, and got up the next morning, in an extremely horrible mood, shouted at the children and his wife for his delay, not realizing that he had spent most of the night, trying to locate that missing gold coin. 129. He went to work as usual only not in his usual best mood, singing happily and whistling all day. He didn’t even seem to notice that the King was watching him as he grumpily did his daily errands. 130. Seeing the man’s attitude change so drastically, the King was puzzled. He promptly summoned his Minister to his chambers. The King related his thoughts about the servant and once again, his Minister listened. The King could not believe that the servant who until yesterday had been singing away and was happy and content with his life had taken a sudden change of attitude, even though he should have been happier after receiving 99 gold coins. 131. To this, the Minister replied “Ah, but your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club.” He explained: “The 99 Club is just a name given to those people who have everything but yet are never content, therefore they are always working hard and striving for that extra 1 to round it out to 100! We have so much to be thankful for and we can live with very little in our lives, but the minute we are given something bigger and better, we want even more! We are not the same happy and contented people we used to be, we want more and more and by wanting more and more, we don’t realize the price we pay for it. We lose our sleep, our happiness; we hurt the people around us just as a price to pay for our growing needs and desires. That is what joining The 99 Club is all about.” Keep Fit Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted. ~ Unknown Anger Management