The Elephant Who Lost An Eye

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An elephant came to the edge of a stream of clear

rushing water.

Being thirsty, the elephant leaned over, dropped its

trunk into the

cool water and... plunk!

 

" What? What happened? " the elephant cried. " I

can't see! My eye...

it fell in the water! Oh nooooooh, " the elephant

wailed in a panic,

" I lost my eye! "

 

And, in fact, the elephant's right eye had popped

out of its

socket and fallen into the stream. The elephant

searched frantically

for the eye, groping with its trunk along the bottom

of the stream.

The more he groped, the cloudier the water became.

That made him

panic

even more, and he started churning up great piles of

sand, until

he couldn't see anything.

 

Then the elephant heard the sound of laughing.

Furious, he

looked around to see who it was, and saw a little

green frog sitting

on a log, laughing and laughing.

 

" You think this is funny? " the elephant shouted.

" I lose an eye

and that makes you laugh? "

 

" What's funny is to see how upset you are. Calm

down and everything

 

will be fine, " the frog replied.

 

The elephant felt a little ashamed and took the

frog's advice.

He stopped moving his trunk around, and soon the

water became clearer

 

as the sand sank to the bottom. And there in the

stream lay his eye.

He reached for it with his trunk and popped it back

into its socket.

And then he thanked the frog.

 

 

......................................................................

 

This simple parable contains great wisdom. There's

nothing funny

about losing an eye... the sudden panic, thrashing

around in murky

water,

desperation... that's exactly what happens to us

when we lose control

 

and panic. Our haste makes us blind.

 

We become temporarily incapable of seeing the

world around us

objectively and rationally. But there is an antidote

to panic: wait.

Wait until the situation becomes clear and the black

clouds disperse.

 

 

 

Haste makes waste;

Waste makes worry;

So do not be in a hurry.

 

 

 

 

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