Giving up sugar
A simple and, in my opinion, beautiful story
A mother took her young son to see an Indian holy man.
Mother: Please tell my son to stop eating sugar.
Holy man: Bring your son back in three days’ time.
Three days passes, and once again the mother has brought her son to see the holy man.
Holy man to son: Stop eating sugar.
Mother: Why couldn’t you have said that three days a…
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