There's an old Jewish parable. Once a donkey accidentally fell into a farmer's well. While the farmer was thinking about what to do, the animal was making pitiful noises for hours, which annoyed everyone, and the only thing the farmer wanted was for it to shut up. So the farmer made a decision. He thought that the donkey was old and no longer needed on the farm, and the well had long since dried up and was also useless. He invited all his neighbours to do two things at once: to fill up the well so that no MAN would fall into it and at the same time to bury and "shut up" the donkey. Everybody took up shovels. The donkey immediately realised what was going on and began to shriek even louder than he had forced everyone to work even faster. After a while he became quiet. Having decided that the job was done, they all looked inside the well and were astonished to see the donkey standing at the edge....

Everyone was dumbfounded by what they saw. With every clod of earth that fell on his back, the donkey did something absolutely incredible: he shook himself and stood on top of the dumped earth.

As the farmer's neighbours continued to diligently shovel earth into the well, each time the animal shook itself and climbed a step higher. Very soon everyone was amazed to see the donkey climb up, jump over the edge of the well, and run away like an eagle!

You will always encounter a lot of dirt in life, and every time fate and people will send you more and more portions of "raw earth". Whenever such a clod falls, shake yourself up and rise up. Each of the problems that arise is an opportunity to go higher. If you don't stop and don't give up, you can get out of any, even the deepest well. And if you fail, you will know that you have been moving all this time, and not suffocating under the ground.

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