“Once upon a time there was a couple of farmers who, one day, discovered a solid gold egg in one of the nests where they kept hens. The couple observed that the bird produced such a miracle day after day, each day obtaining a golden egg.
Reflecting on what it was that made the hen in question have this ability, they suspected that it had gold inside. To prove it and get all the gold at once, they killed the hen and opened it, discovering to their surprise that inside the prodigious bird was the same as the others. And they also realized that, in their ambition, they had put an end to what had been making them rich.”
This fable, associated with Aesop but also versioned by authors such as Samariaga or La Fontaine and which sometimes tells us about a hen and sometimes about a goose, teaches us the importance of putting aside greed, since it can lead us to lose what we have.
