Saturday, November 20, 2010

The parable of the Frog (Image by H.K. Yuen)

“Once upon a time there was this group of frogs, traveling through the woods. Two frogs fell into a deep pit. The other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead.

The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead.

Finally, one of the frogs gave in to what the other frogs were saying, and gave up. He dropped to the ground and died. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.

He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The other frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.”

The moral of the story is, if we listen to the nay sayers, crabs and frogs that says, "You can't do it, just give up so as not to hurt yourself.". Then we are doomed to be what others say we are. ^^

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