This is in response to Rochelle’s Weekly Photo Prompt for Friday Fictioneers.
Word Count: 100
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The Point Of Dissension
Baba said, ” Let me tell you all Rama’s story. He inherited his grandfather’s small, dingy shop and turned it into a huge departmental store through diligence, industry and ethical business.”
The children looked unimpressed, “Oh! That must have taken a lifetime!”
“You start small and grow big,” Baba replied.
“We want to start big and get bigger.”
“You are inexperienced and may make mistakes. It’s better to make small ones than big blunders.”
They disagreed.
And the argument still continues between two generations, values and approaches.
Hope they see eye to eye at some point.
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Geeta, I enjoyed your story for the prompt and had to smile with how the youngens say “We want to start big and get bigger.” – but much growth too soon, can cripple.
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Exactly, Yvette. That is the difference between old and new approaches
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🙂
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Nice story.
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Thank you so much Will
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Neat
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Thank you very much Derrrick
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Perhaps, no matter how you start, growing big is the wrong purpose
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Actually for youngsters BIG is very important at least over here
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Good point made in your story
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Thank you very much Sadje
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You’re most welcome
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Nicely played out Geeta🙌
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Thank you very much Ange
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❤️
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Yes, sometime the younger generation think they know best.
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Yes, they do
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Geeta, I guess it doesn’t hurt to hope 🙂
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Of course not. It doesn’t
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Dear Geeta,
I suspect the young ones will find out that Baba was right. 😉 Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you very much Rochelle. Regards
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And so it goes from generation to generation! Nicely done, Geeta
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Thank you very much Dale
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Lovely. So true. And so it will carry on.
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Thanks for this thoughtful post, Ma’am! I certainly hope that the younger generation will realize that real meaning lies in the process rather than attaining the big goal!
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Hope so too Deeptangshu
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The all too familiar generation gap…and so it goes. Nice story!
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Thank you very much Brenda
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Good one, Geeta!
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Thank you very much Chris
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Nice story. I feel like I have this running conversation with my 19 year-old son!
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Thank you very much. Glad the story resonates with you.
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I think they will find out Baba is right.
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Yes I hope so too Nancy
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