Retelling of the famous Aesop’s fable: “The milkmaid and her pail” — and the ambitious aspirations of Medium writers😃

“I am buying Ko-fi in golden mugs for all my readers!”

The milkmaid was returning home, carrying a pail of milk on her head, and in no time, she begins to dream —

“With all the milk in my pail, I would generate lots of cream. Lots of cream will bring me lots and lots of money. With lots and lots of money, I will buy lots and lots and lots of eggs.

All the eggs will eventually hatch into chickens. Once I sell all the chickens, I would buy the most expensive dresses. And in no time, the richest and most handsome men of the town would come and marry me!

Life will be so great after that!”

While she was building dream castles, her foot struck a pothole. And with it went spilling on the road — all the milk and her best laid plans.

It was 4:00 A.M. and I had woken up even before my alarm. I had been planning to start writing on Medium and finally it was the day. As I started writing, I wondered how cool it would be to gain 100 followers on Medium, and apply for Medium partner program. And as I shall continue publishing, my followers will keep on increasing — and in no time I shall be become a Medium writing superstar.

All the publications would be dying to have me as an author in their publication — but why would I even bother?

I would start my own publication and shall give an existence scare to lesser known publications such as Better Human and The Startup.

After all, what value would such small publications even hold before me!

I would also open a Twitter account, and my following will surpass Elon Musk’s in no time 😃. Did I also tell you that I would have thousands of subscribers for my Substack Newsletter?

I will also start my online teaching course — “How to be an 8-figure writer in 12 months?”. The money would keep rolling in — sponsorships, Medium earnings, sponsored tweets, newsletter subscriptions!

Even Netflix would approach me for a writing assignment, but unfortunately I would not have time for them — so I will give it a pass, and let other lesser known Medium writers with only 100K followers earn a fortune through Netflix.

All the big writers will eventually tag me just to get more views on their articles. I guess I would not mind, I am very compassionate at heart. Also, for all my loyal readers, I will buy them Ko-fi. Wait, isn’t it too less for a superstar writer like me?

“I will buy Ko-fi in golden mugs for all my readers!”

And then soon I would become bigger than Medium, and would buy Medium itself!

Eventually, life would be very peaceful and calming! This is such a fail proof plan!

As I was building dream castles with a smile on my face 😃, the 8:30 alarm rang and it was time for me to catch my office bus! I had dozed off at my writing table, and when I woke up I had only written the title “Hello Medium! Here I come!”.

I eventually fell down, and with it went spilling on the road — all the milk and my best laid plans.

I am thinking of changing my name from “The Silent Monk” to “The Stupid Monk”.

To all the readers who have come so far!

Lets be honest, we all have been the dreaming milkmaid at some point in our journey, and it is perfectly okay. Foolish thinking is the sign of an imaginative person, and we all need to think foolish sometimes. Working without big dreams and larger than life imagination won’t lead us anywhere!

But all our enthusiasm, motivation and energy from foolish thinking should be translated into action as well!

I sincerely hope that we all continue to dream big like the milkmaid, work harder and also achieve all that we aspire to.

P.S. Trisha Faye, I wish you all the best for your new publication, and I sincerely hope you are able to spread good vibes and achieve all that you intend to with your publication. To all the readers, I suggest you please do check out the publication “Good Vibes Club”, for I have always known Medium to be a place where we all support each other 😃.

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