A soldier returning home alone from a great battle found a monster
blocking his path. It wasn’t much of a monster. In fact it was quite
pathetic. It was small, its claws were blunt, and most of its teeth were
missing.
The solder had won all the battles he had ever been in
and was considered something of a hero. He decided he would deal with
the rather feeble looking monster there and then. He had run out of
bullets, so using his rifle as a club he brought the creature to the
ground with a single blow.
Then he stepped over it and continued
along the path. Within minutes, the monster was in front of him again,
only now it looked slightly larger and its teeth and claws were a bit
sharper.
Once again he hit the monster, but this time it took
several blows to bring it down. Again he stepped over it, and again, a
few minutes later, the monster appeared before him, bigger than ever.
The
third time, no matter how much he hit the monster it would not go down.
It grew larger and more ferocious with each blow the solder aimed at
it. Defeated, the soldier fled back down the path, with the monster
chasing after him.
Yet by the time it arrived at the spot where he’d first seen it, the monster had returned to its original size.
When
another traveller appeared on the path the soldier stopped him and
warned him of what had happened. ‘Maybe we can fight it together,’ he
suggested, ‘then we will overcome it.’
‘Let’s just leave the
feeble little thing where it is,’ said the traveller. ‘If you pick a
quarrel with something unpleasant when you don’t really have to, then it
simply grows more unpleasant. Let’s just leave it alone.’
And so they did. They walked around the toothless little monster and
lesson learned
Don’t let your toothless little monsters wind you up!
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