Good or Bad, hard to say!

Mind the English. I copied from an e mail sent to me by a friend.

Once upon a time, there was a king. The king liked one of his
followers very much because he was very wise and always gave very
useful advice. Therefore the king took him along wherever he went.

One day, the king was bitten by a dog, the finger was injured and the
wound was getting worse.

He asked the follower if that was a bad sign. The follower said, Good
or bad, hard to say'. In the end, the finger of the king was too bad
that had to be cut.

The king asked the follower again if that was a bad sign.

Again, the follower gave the same answer, 'Good or bad, hard to say'.

The king became very angry and sent the follower to prison.

One day, the king went hunting in the jungle. He got excited when he
was on the chase of a deer. Deeper and deeper he went inside the
jungle. In the end he found himself lost in the jungle. To make thing
worse, he got captured by the native people lived inside the jungle.

They wanted to sacrifice him to their god. But when they noticed that
the king had one finger short, they released him immediately as he
was not a perfect man anymore and not suitable for sacrifice. The
king managed to get back to his palace after all. And he finally
understood the follower's wise quote, 'Good or bad, hard to say'. If
he hadn't lost one finger,he could have been killed by the
native people.

He ordered to release the follower, and apologized to him. But to the
king amaze, the follower was not mad at him at all. Instead, the
follower said, 'It wasn't a bad thing that you locked me up.'

Why? Because if the king hadn't locked the follower up, he would have
brought the follower along to the jungle. If the native found that
the king was not suitable, they would have used the follower. Again,
the quote 'Good or bad, hard to say' stands.


The moral of the story:

Everything that happens in this world, there is no absolute good or
bad. Sometimes good things turned out to be bad things eventually,
while bad things become a gain.

Whatever good things that happen to you, enjoy it, but don't have to
hold too tight to it, treat it as a surprise in your life.Whatever
bad things that happen to you, don't have to feel too sad or despair,
in the end, it might not be a total bad thing after all.