There was once an old man living all by himself in a little house, with a well in the front yard.
He had a donkey which lived with him on the landed property, and it was very dear to him.
The old man depended on the donkey to help him make money by transporting things around.
Both of them were able to live with each other for many years.
But one day, the donkey fell into the well, and the old man searched high and low for his donkey.
The donkey called out and the old man followed the sound to the well.
He saw his donkey and tried to get him out, but to no avail.
So the old man thought:I should just bury both the well and donkey, since they are so old.
The old man went to gather all the village people for the final burying ceremony.
Everyone mourned, and each took 1 shovel full of soil and threw it down the well.
The donkey was alarmed at all the soil entering the well, and he panicked.
But then, he figured out something, and began to shrug off the soil on his back.
After a few more shovels, the final shovel-load of soil was for the old man.
He dumped the last bit of soil, and to everyone's amazement, the donkey was standing on the pile of soil, and he stepped out of the well.
Everyone was all too shocked to utter a single word.
What actually happened was that when the donkey shrugged off the soil, the level of soil in the well rose, and the donkey stepped up. With every shovel of soil, the donkey rose higher and higher till he reached the top of the well, and stepped out of it.
In life,many people will throw shovels of soil onto you, and expect you to take it all, but will you be like the donkey? To turn a dire situation to your favour. Anybody can dump shovels of soil on you, and you might recieve a lot, but just take it all, and shrug it all off and learn something out of it, and step up from there. Will you?
PS: This is what I learnt from my Tuesday lesson [aka. School Of Leaders(SOL) 1]
~moey out~