Luck And Butterfly Effect

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Once upon a time in ancient China,

about 475 B.C., there was a

rancher named Saiweng. He had a

horse ranch.

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One day one of his horses was missing.

All his neighbors felt sorry for him.

But he was not a bit dismayed.

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He said: “Losing a horse is not a good thing, but how do

we know something good won’t come

from it?”

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A few days later, that horse came

home with a magnificent steed, the kind of horse Hu the barbarians in the north had.

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His neighbors all came to

congratulate him. But he said: “How do we know a bad thing won’t come

from it?”

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Saiweng’s son loved riding that new

horse. One day he was thrown off its back and broke his leg. He became a

cripple.

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All his neighbors felt sorry for him. But Saiweng said:

“We don’t know for sure it won’t bring

us something good.”

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A year later, Hu the barbarians in the north started invading China. All young men in the

village went to war but many didn’t

come home.

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Saiweng’s son didn’t have to go to war because he was

a cripple. His broken leg might

have saved his life.

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The moral of the story is:

“A good luck is not necessarily good, and a

bad luck is not necessarily bad.”

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