Once there was a poor shepherd. All he believed was in leading his herd, finding food and water for them. Nothing else mattered to him. One by one, all of his friends left village, settled in big cities and married to beautiful ladies. Shepherd continued living with his herd, alone for rest of world but was pretty much occupied in taking care of sheeps and travelling across the country with them.
Roaming across the country for food and water for his sheeps, once he met with girl who offered him shelter and food. Girl talked everything about her and shepherd listened to everything without saying any word. In his mind, he has declared this girl the most beautiful he has ever known. The shepherd started visiting the girl's village more often and enjoyed the food and conversation with her. Slowly he started talking and laughing with girl and that was when he discovered what he has been missing all those years and why all his friends left the village.
Soon when shepherd found impossible to breathe if he is not thinking about the girl, he realized he has nothing in return to give the girl for her kindness. All he knows about and have with him is a herd of sheeps. He started thinking to leave the girl and continue his travelling but this very thought always choked him. Betting on his instincts, he decided to fight with destiny to achieve what is always told by his wisdom impossible.
Shepherd sold his herd and started earning more money by trading goods from far villages. Just when he started believing in possibility of his dreams, he found the girl is now much silent than before whenever he visited her. He continued doing hard work and earning wealth but he was sad with the passionless love of girl. Soon the girl started forgetting the shepherd and he was left alone in mid of a meaningless life. He neither has the sheeps to look after or the dreams for girl to chase for. He still continued on same path hoping that life will return the girl to him someday. He found its too late now to leave everything he is doing and go settle in any town. In this time the shepherd started discovering something divine, something that cannot be written or taught but something only few are chosen to understand. He thought it could be love in its purest form. As days passed by, his enthusiasm for material and money started diminishing. He started loosing health and gaining wisdom day by day. After getting too much consumed by his love, he started thinking of giving up all and leave the village. But then there will always be a haunting thought of his failure till his grave like a soldier who ran away from mid of war. Now that he is convinced that girl would never return after this long wait, he conveyed his message to girl to let her do whats best and whats right in her life. Shepherd continued waiting for her for rest of his life, he never regretted for anything or blamed girl for anything. He thanked god and the girl beacuse of which he was able to understand hard to reach depths of life. Having left with nothing in the end but wisdom, its concluded that shepherd are good with sheeps only.
