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Shake It Off and Step Up

Rise by stepping over setbacks.

By Rohitha LankaPublished about a year ago 1 min read

Since obstacles are something to shake off, step on. Once upon a time, there was a farmer who had a donkey. It was very old. Once the farmer took out the old donkey. So idiotic, it recently fell into a pond. It groaned for a long time. The farmer attempted to find a way to help it. At last, the farmer saw that the donkey was too old. Plus, the pond needed to be hidden. It was stupid to help the donkey. So the farmer told the villagers to help cover the pond. They all gathered with shovels to dump dirt into the pond. When the mud first landed on the donkey's back, it was surprised, but it soon came to understand its situation. It howled immediately. At one point, everyone looked and was amazed to see that the donkey was silent. When the farmer had thrown a few shovels of soil into the pond, he looked inside the pond and was astounded to discover that when everyone threw soil on the donkey's back, the donkey would shake the soil off its back and step on that soil. The more everybody tried to throw dirt, the better it rose to the challenge.

Faster than ever, before you knew it, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and jumped out!

This story teaches us that

In this world, the impediments are like the earth, which.

splashes on us. Don't be further discouraged and give up. Solve them so that

we can ride them to ride higher and higher, the same way that old donkey did.”

that escaped from the well.

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    Written by Rohitha Lanka