An old farmer is out working in the field when out of the blue a horse appears. His neighbor comes running over and exclaims, “how fortunate you are! A horse has appeared out of nowhere and now it's yours!” The old man simply replies “who knows what is good and what is bad?”
The following day, the old man comes out to discover that the horse has broken out of the corral and has run away. The neighbor comes running over and exclaims, “how unfortunate for you, your horse is now gone!” The old man simply replies “who knows what it good and what is bad?”
Later that day the horse shows up in the field with four additional horses, and now the neighbor comes running over and exclaims, “how fortunate for you! You got your horse back and now you have all these additional horses too!” To which the old man simply replies, “who knows what is good and what is bad?”
Later the old man’s son is riding one of the horses, falls off the horse and breaks his leg. The neighbor comes running over and says “how unfortunate, your only son, now with a broken leg, this is so unfortunate!” The old man simply replies, “who knows what is good and what is bad?”
The next day, the army comes to town to conscript all the young men to join the army for the war, and they can't take the old man’s son because of his broken leg. The neighbor comes running over and says “how fortunate for you, my son was taken but yours has a broken leg and because of that...” Then he pauses and simply says, together with the old man, “who knows what is good and what is bad?””
Submitted August 24, 2020 at 08:03AM by BeautifulAndrogyne https://ift.tt/31o6rUI
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