GOOD OR BAD , HARD TO SAY ...

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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, a dog bit the king. 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, the finger of the king was too
bad that it 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, the native people
who lived inside the jungle captured him. 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 sacrifice.


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, the native people could have killed him. He ordered
the follower to be released, and apologized to him. But to the king’s
amazement, 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.

As the saying goes: “Everything happens for a reason…”