Be a Lake not a bottle of water

- Be a Lake not a Bottle of water  :

 The old teacher instructed an unfortunate young man to put a handful of salt in a bottle of water and drink it. How does it taste?" the Master asked.

"Awful," spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two silently approached the nearby lake, and when the apprentice turned his handful of salt into the lake, "Now can you drink from the lake." the old man said.

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?"Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man. The Master sat next to this sad young man, took his hands and said: "The pain of life is pure salt, neither more nor less".The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into.

So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to change the way you look at things.....

Moral of the story: Stop being a bottle, Become a LAKE!

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