
This is a traditional (short) Chinese story about good or bad luck. The insight of this story can be applied to our own lives and all of the situations we constantly find ourselves in. I hope this narrative will help you be more at ease with the challenges you face and the choices you have to make. Understand that there’s no point in thinking ahead.
Enter Chinese wisdom….
In a village in the Chinese countryside, a farmer lived with his son. Besides their hut and the land, their only possession of any value was the horse. In this way they could work the land and make ends meet in all modesty. One day the horse broke through the fence and ran away.
That evening the villagers came to visit the Chinese farmer to express their pity. “How terrible!” they said, “What about the land? Lost your horse, what an accident!”
But the farmer smiled quietly and said, “Luck or bad? Who’s to say? All I know is that the horse ran away.”
The next day the farmer and his son went back to work on the land and for some time they made the best of it. Until one day the horse came running up again. And in his wake he took a herd of ten wild horses!
That evening the villagers gathered again to offer their congratulations: “What luck! What amazing! You just own tenfold!” But the farmer smiled quietly and said, “Luck or bad? Who’s to say? All I know is that my horse is back and there are ten other horses with them.”
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