STOP the "SUFFER SUFFER"

I chanced upon a cartoon video today but was quite loaded with a positive message for every person regardless of their age.

It was a video about a carpenter who had closed from work, turned off all the inside light and locked up his shop. At night, a hungry snake slithered from the nearby bush to the entrance of the carpenters shop. Finding a narrow crevice in the wall of the shop, it entered and welcomed itself hoping to find food to eat. In the shop, the snake moved over storage wood, working benches and looked under objects to find food. 

Through this action of moving from corner to corner, the snake accidentally bumped into a carpentry hand-saw with a jagged edge blade and wounded itself.

The snake without hesitation turned swiftly and took a deep bite at the carpentry object out of anger and thus injuring its mouth. (What could a bite do to a metallic object anyway?)

This feeling upset the snake more and out of fury and driven into a mood of revenge, attacked the hand-saw by coiling itself around this tool in a bid to strangle it. Of cause it got worse.

Early the next morning, the carpenter reopened his shop to only realize a dead snake on the ground coiled around the hand-saw.

The snake died not due to the carpenters fault nor any persons fault BUT rather due to its uncontrolled anger and revengeful attitude.

Question; is it always vital to respond to everything that offends us? 

Stop. Take a deep breath & evaluate.

We have gotten angry in our lives one way or the another. Many a time, this has resulted in affecting our mood negatively, having a direct consequence on health, clouding the mind & judgement, hurting ourselves, impacting  adversely on those who offended us, affecting persons that had nothing to do with the situation in the first place etc etc.

Make good of every situation and cultivate the habit of keeping a merry countenance regardless of the situation. Remember, its for your own well-being.

Quit renting part of your mind and soul to tenants such as anger, revenge and their siblings.

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