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Subject: Cover up?
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; so it just wasn't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They
each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
Realizing what was happening, the donkey at first cried and
waited horribly. Then, a few shovelfuls later, he quieted down
completely.
The farmer peered down into the well, and was astounded by
what he saw. With every shovelful of dirt that hit his back, the
donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of
the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty
soon, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to the shock and astonishment of all the neighbors!
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick
to getting out of the well is to not let it bury you, but to
shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up.
Shake it off and take a step up!
Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.
Also, the donkey kicked the sh#@ out of the guy that tried to
bury him. Which brings me to another moral for this story: When you try to cover your ass, it always comes back and gets you.
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