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Tales From An African Night


Narrated By Janet Odidi Obuotor 

For echoblog-ger.blogspot.com 

Once upon a time a fisher man went out to sea and fetched some crabs. He placed the crabs in a bucket at the seashore and left to go attend to his fishing net.

The crabs filled with excitement that their captor was nowhere in sight, decided that it was time to get away and crawl back into the sea. 

Therefore, a crab 🦀  moved as fast as it could and tries to crawl up the side of the bucket but suddenly the others grabbed a hold of it and pulled it back down into the bucket.

Rather than assist the crab crawl out of the bucket, the other crabs pulled it back into the bucket. 

Again and again the crabs kept crawling over each other and pulling each other back into the bucket.

Soon the fisherman was back to his bucket of crabs. That evening the fisherman had a delicious meal of fisherman soup, made with the crabs. 

If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly, however, when you have more than one crab in a bucket, the others would continue to pull down any crab that tries to crawl up the sides of the bucket. The others would grab a hold of it and pull it back down. They all end up sharing the same fate."

Moral of the story;

Number 1: 

Do what is right for you, some people might have the best intentions, to protect you but they are holding you from your success story.

Number 2:

Not everybody that shares the same intents with you, tends to help you achieve.

Number 3: 

Sometimes in life there are people whose only goal is to pull you back from your path to success.  Learn to identify them.


Comments

  1. Empressdara10 October 2022 at 14:46

    Absoutely!
    Couldn't agree less with all the moral stories.

    ReplyDelete

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