Vijay For VictoryDo Not Hurt Yourself
One night a snake while it was looking for food, entered a carpenter’s workshop.
The carpenter, who was a rather untidy man, had left several of his tools lying on the floor. One of them was a saw. As the snake went round and round the shop, he climbed over the saw, which gave him a little cut.
At once, thinking that the saw was attacking him, he turned around and bit it so hard that his mouth started to bleed.. This made him very angry. He attacked again and again until the saw was covered with blood and seemed to be dead.
Dying from his own wounds, the snake decided to give one last hard bite then turned away. The next morning the carpenter was surprised to find a dead snake on his doorstep.
Moral of the story: Sometimes in trying to hurt others, we only hurt ourselves.
This is very true. The opposite of love is indifference, and if we are spending so much time trying to hurt someone, we should stop and think: why am I expending so much time and energy towards someone, if I truly don’t care. I should re-examine why I am doing this. Is it hate, or am I possibly hurt by them, or maybe still care, even though I want to deny it. And maybe I am only hurting myself and should bring some type of closure to it once and for all.
One must remember the adage: There is three sides to every story; one persons side, the other person’s side and then the truth.
Good Motivational story!
@Lynn Well said. Thanks for your comments.