Rasiq Sultan
Branch Head - Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh
Percept Out Of Home

Good Luck? Bad Luck? Who Knows?

There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and, when all the farmer’s neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, ‘Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?’ A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, ‘Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?’

Then, when the farmer’s son attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, ‘Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?’. Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer’s son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?

Moral of the story
In my life whenever I break down I feel like going back in time and correcting whatever had led for me to break down. But later, I release the same old truth “Whatever Happens, Happens for Good”.

As per the above story, if we look at life and every incident in a positive way, the moral is, whatever happened has happened for good. One should always have an optimistic approach towards life, as optimism is the key to deal with all problems!

I can really vouch for this philosophy, because whenever I have practiced it, I have always found that there was something good in whatever happened.