Hello Everyone

Here is a little story my grandfather told me that has been inspiring
to me. This might be inspiring to someone else as well. Hope you
all enjoy.


THE FARMER AND THE DONKEY

One day a farmer was out walking in his field with his donkey. The
farmer was walking a few feet ahead of the donkey when he heard a
terrific crash from behind him. When he turned around, the donkey
was no where to be seen. He heard the "eee-awww!!" cries of the
donkey echoing from somewhere, but he could not see where it had
gone. Upon some more investigation, the farmer realized that his
donkey had broken through some old wood fallen into an old abandoned
well.

Frustrated and cursing himself for his lack of attention, the farmer
tried to think of a way to get his donkey out of the well. He
figured he might be able to lower a rope down and try to lift the
donkey out. But he was an old man, and he would not have the strenth
to do this. Besides, once the rope was lowered, the donkey would
have no way to grasp the rope! They don't even have apposable
thumbs!!

The farmer decided after some time that, since the donkey was old,
and the well needed to be filled anyway, he would just bury the
donkey in the well. So the man got a shovel and began to fill the
well with dirt. Understandably upset, the donkey began to scream and
cry out, "eee-aww!! EEE-AWW!!!"

Gradually, the cries began to wan, and the farmer just kept
shoveling. Sweating and tired after quite a lot of shovel fulls into
the abandoned will, the farmer decided to take a break and peer into
the well to view his progress.

To the farmer's amazement, the donkey was standing on a large pile of
dirt looking up at the farmer above him. The farmer poured a few
more shovel fulls into the well, and the donkey was doing something
astonishing.

Every time the farmer would pour more dirt into the well, the donkey
would shake off the dirt, take a step up on to the new dirt and look
up at the farmer. So the farmer poured more dirt into the well, and
the donkey shook off the dirt, took a step up, and looked up at the
farmer.

And the farmer kept repeating this until the donkey was finally out
of the well!!


So you may be sitting there asking yourself, "Okay, well that was
entertaining, what's the point?"

Here is the moral of the story.
1. Don't give up on solving your problems too easily. Sometimes the
solution comes in mysterious ways. Just try someting and you may
find a great solution where you least expected it.

2. Sometimes life will shovel dirt on you. All you have to do is
shake off that dirt, take a step up, and look up. You simply can not
allow yourself to be buried in life's little set backs. You can make
it through anything if you have a burning desire.

If you don't believe this. Think of the donkey's desire. After the
farmer's attempt to cover him up, the donkey had the burning desire
to kick the living shit out of that rat bastard farmer, which he did
promply after getting out of that damn well!!!

So that brings us to one final lesson that we can learn from this
little story about the farmer and the donkey.

3. If you make a mistake or get into a jam, it's not wise to try to
COVER YOUR ASS!!! It'll probably come back to bite you in the end...

Thanks everyone. I hope you have enjoyed this tale. Send it to
someone you think might like it if you want. I wish you all the very
best success. Bye for now.

Kristopher Curry

http://Curry.successin10steps.com/?mad=8447