Sweden, Dec. 12 -- There was once a contented man who worked in the king's palace. The king was baffled how this one man could be happy when others could not. When he asked his chief advisor about this, the chief advisor requested the king to give this man a bag of 99 gold coins. Almost that day onwards, the king observed a change in this man. He was no longer happy or at peace with himself. He seemed harassed and under pressure. The king asked his chief advisor what could have caused the change in this man.

The adviser explained that since this man got 99 gold coins, he has become obsessed with somehow earning the hundredth gold coin. Instead of appreciating the 99 gold coins he has at hand, he is now tormented with what he does not. In...