The purpose of this story is about giving something back in return. It illustrates the principle of reciprocity and highlights the importance of not taking without giving back, as shown by the fate of the thieves who took from the glass cupboard without returning anything.
The Glass Cupboard
There was a king who had a cupboard that was made entirely of glass. It was a special cupboard. It looked empty, but you could always take out anything you wanted. There was only one thing that had to be remembered. Whenever something was taken out of it, something else had to be put back in, although nobody knew why.
One day some thieves broke into the palace and stole the cupboard. “Now, we can have anything we want,” they said. One of the thieves said, “I want a large bag of gold,” and he opened the glass cupboard and got it. The other two did the same, and they, too, got exactly what they wanted. The thieves forgot one thing. Not one of them put anything back inside the cupboard.
This went on and on for weeks and months. At last, the leader of the thieves could bear it no longer. He took a hammer and smashed the glass cupboard into a million pieces, and then all three thieves fell down dead. When the king returned home, he ordered his servants to search for the cupboard.
When the servants found it and the dead thieves, they filled sixty great carts with the gold and took it back to the king. He said, “If those thieves had only put something back into the cupboard, they would be alive to this day.”
He ordered his servants to collect all of the pieces of glass and melt into a globe of the world with all the countries on it; this was to remind himself and others, to give back something in return when someone shows an act of kindness or gives us something.
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This story is about learning how to break a glass cupboard.
This story is about learning how to break a glass cupboard.
This story is about learning the importance of gold.
This story is about learning the importance of gold.
This story is about giving something back in return.
This story is about giving something back in return.
This story is about a king.
This story is about a king.
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This story is about giving something back in return.
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