Silence Can Be Golden

Facing hard times, David’s family’s 80 acres of land was sold to a distant relative, and suddenly what they had spent decades building was gone. For years, David dreamed of getting that land back and rebuilding the family business.

And then the land appeared at auction, and David and his father decided to do their best to collect whatever monies they could to get it back. They spent weeks and weeks trying to earn the money to reclaim their land, and when the day of the auction arrived, they were saddened to see some 200 other farmers gathered to bid on the land.

All that work and it looked like they had no chance. When the auctioneer announced David’s family’s land, they placed their bid and waited to see what happened.

Silence. The entire room went quiet. David didn’t understand what was going on and even the auctioneer was shocked; he tried to solicit other bids, but was met with silence. He called a break, and then reconvened the auction once, twice, three more times and still not a single farmer other than David and his father bid on the land. The auctioneer had no choice but to accept David’s bid, and suddenly he and his father had their farm back.

Two hundred other farmers, who could have used that land, and could have probably outbid David, stayed silent so the family farm could go back to its first family.

Miracles do happen; good people do exist; the right things can get done.

Lesson learned.

Real Farmacy