After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.
Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened, and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the mule was hysterical. But as the people continued shovelling and the dirt hit his back, a thought struck him.
He decided that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back, he should shake it off and step up onto it. This he did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up. Shake it off and step up. Shake it off and step up" he repeated to encourage himself.
No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed, the mule fought panic and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up. It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of the well.
What seemed like it would bury him actually blessed him, all because of the perspective from which he viewed his adversity.
Source: www.motivational-well-being.com
Contributed by Mark Liwag
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