Once upon a time, there was a
king. The king liked one of his
followers very much because he was
very wise and always gave very
useful advice. Therefore the king
took him along wherever he went.
One day, the king was bitten by a
dog, the finger was injured and the
wound was getting worse. He asked
the follower if that was a bad sign.
The follower said, 'Good or bad,
hard to say'.
In the end, finger of the king was
too bad that had to be cut. The king
asked the follower again if that was
a bad sign. Again, the follower gave
the same answer, 'Good or bad, hard
to say'.
The king became very angry and sent
the follower to prison.
One day, the king went hunting in
the jungle. He got excited when he
was on the chase of a deer. Deeper
and deeper he went inside the
jungle.
In the end he found himself lost in
the jungle. To make things worse, he
got captured by the native people
lived inside the jungle.
They wanted to sacrifice him to
their god. But when they noticed
that the king had one finger short,
they released him immediately as he
was not a perfect man anymore and
not suitable for sacriface.
The king managed to get back to his
palace after all.
And he finally understood the
follower's wise quote, 'Good or bad,
hard to say'. If he hadn't lost one
finger, he could have been killed by
the native people.
He ordered to release the follower,
and apologized to him.
But to the king's amaze, the
follower was not mad at him at all.
Instead, the follower said,
'It wasn't a bad thing that you
locked me up.' Why? Because if the
king hadn't locked the follower up,
he would have brought the follower
along to the jungle. If the native
found that the king was not
suitable, they would have used the
follower.
Again, the quote 'Good or bad, hard
to say' stands.
The moral of the story is that
everything that happens in this
world, there is no absolute good or
bad.
Sometimes good things turned out to
be bad things eventually, while bad
things become a gain.
Whatever good things that happen to
you, enjoy it, but don't have to
hold too tight to it, treat it as a
surprise in your life.
Whatever bad things that happen to
you, don't have to feel too sad or
despair, in the end, it might not be
a total bad thing after all.
If one can understand this, he or
she will find life much easier