Hi ,
Aesop’s Fable: “The Man, The Boy, And the Donkey”
I’ve always liked this story as it perfectly conveys how it’s impossible to please everyone.
Some people keep trying and trying, but you
inevitably wind up miserable yourself.
A Man and his son went to the market with their donkey. As they walked, a countryman passed and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey good for but riding?”
So, the Man put the boy on the donkey. Soon they passed a group of men, and one said: “See that lazy Boy; he lets his father walk while he
rides.”
So, the Man ordered his boy to get off and got on himself. Then they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son march along.”
The Man didn’t know what to do, so he placed his boy up before him on the donkey. By this time, they had come to the town, and passers-by jeered
and pointed at them.
The Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey with you and your large son?”
The Man and Boy got down and didn’t know what to do. They thought and thought until they cut down a pole, tied the donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole with the donkey to
their shoulders.
They went on in the middle of the laughter of everyone who met them until they came to Market Bridge, when the donkey, wiggling and moving around, caused the boy to drop his end of the pole.
The donkey fell over the bridge into the water and drowned in the struggle.
“That will teach you,” said an old man
who had followed them: “Please all, and you will please none!”
The story’s moral is that trying to please everyone is impossible and will result in failure to please anyone (especially yourself).
People don’t always agree (parents, friends, society at large), and if you try to live up to all their expectations, you’ll end up feeling miserable because you’re not living the life you want to while making
others unhappy anyway.
As Abraham Lincoln once expressed: “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
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