The Horse Story

One night an Indian warrior's horse ran away. The next day he told others that this was a very unfortunate event. A few days later, the horse returned, and with it returned three beautiful foals. Now the warrior thought it was a blessing that his horse ran away.

Several weeks later as the warrior's son was riding one of the foals, he took a terrible fall and almost died. At this point in time, the warrior again thought it was unfortunate that his horse had run off.

As the son was still recovering, the tribe went to war and had severe casualties. If the son had not falling off the horse, he would have went to war and might have died like many of the other tribesmen. At this point in time, the warrior once again thought he was fortunate that his horse ran away.


I was told the preceding story as a child and have tried to reproduce as best I could. I think the moral of the story is clear. That is, what appears to be an unfortunate event, in the long run may bring some unforeseen blessing. Hopefully each of us will take this same attitude towards life when we are occasionally dealt a bad hand.

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