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China
June 1, 2008
Today, I have read a blog article in the englishbaby which is named as ‘Is everything bad is always bad’ and written by frozenblue. The blog article tells of a story which says people needn’t worry about many bad things because it’s not always bad. The story mentioned by frozenblue reminds me a famous Chinese story having the same truth, which is named as ‘Nobody knows it is not a good thing for Saiweng losing his horse’.
Long long ago, there was a old man, whose name is Saiweng, who breed a male horse. One day, this horse lost and all of his families worried about it. But Saiweng shook his head and said, ’It may be not a bad thing.’ Some days later, the male horse came back his house. Not only this, but also the male horse bring a female horse back house. Everybody was very happy. But Saiweng shook his head again and said, ‘It may be not a good thing.’ Many years later, Saiweng’s son was spilled by the horse and broke his leg. All of his families were sorrowful about it. But Saiweng shook his head again and said, ‘It may be not a bad thing.’ It was not a long time that there happened a war between Saiweng’s country and a nearby country since this unhappy affair. And the king forced every right adult man to join the army. Saiweng’s son avoided being forced to join the army because of his disabled leg.
So, this story tells us that it is not absolute for everything, and everything has two-faced property.
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