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José Paulo – Ideal Decision José Paulo – Ideal Decision

did was to teach the people to be hardworking and cautious. It is getting dark and someone may trip over this rock and get badly hurt. I

No good can come to a nation – he said – whose people complain and expect will take it off the road. And she tried to drag the rock away. It was very heavy,
others to solve their problems. God gives good things in life to those who take care but the lady pushed and pushed, and pulled and inclined, until she managed to
of their own problems. take it away.
One night, while everybody was asleep, he placed a huge rock on the road To her surprise, she found a box below the rock. She picked it up. It was
that passed through the palace. Then, he hid behind a fence and waited to see heavy because there was something inside. Engraved in the lid there was the
what happened. saying: “this box belongs to whomever removes the rock”.

First came a farmer with a cart loaded with seeds he was taking to the mill She opened it up and found out the box was filled with gold. The king
for milling. Who has ever seen such carelessness? He said, while deflecting his showed himself and said with affection:
cart and skirting the rock. My daughter, we frequently find obstacles and burdens on the way.

Why don’t these lazy people take this rock off the road? We can complain loud and clear while we divert them, if we prefer to do so,
And he kept complaining about the uselessness of others without even tou- or we can pick them up e find out what they mean.
ching the rock himself. Disappointment is usually the price of laziness.

Soon after, a young soldier came singing along the road. The long feather of Then, the wise king got on his horse and, with a gentle good night, went
his cap waved in the breeze, and a shiny sword hung from his waist. away.”

He was thinking about the amazing courage he would show in war and The young lady from this tale thought about the neighbor and
failed to see the rock. He tripped over it and crashed to the dusty ground. acted out of concern for whomever could be harmed by that rock.
He got up, dusted off his clothes, picked up his sword and was enraged by the Every time we act thinking about the good of someone else, we are
lazy people who had foolishly dropped that huge rock on the road. rewarded. A tree that gives good fruits can feed many people, and
automatically people take care of it, nourish it, and never cut it
So, he also walked away without thinking even once that he could remove down. But a thorny tree is usually cut down because it serves to no-
the rock himself. thing other than hurting. What kind of “tree” are you relating to?

And so, the day went by... Over the time I had many failures with some people. I believed

Everyone who passed by complained and grumbled about the rock in the them, invested time in them, supported them in many ways, but
middle of the road, but no one touched it. they did not correspond; and most of the times, people who do
Finally, at nightfall, the miller’s daughter passed by. She was very har- not correspond are the ones with a behavioral deviation, or a ne-
dworking and was tired from working in the mill since dawn, but she said to gative mind.
herself: I realized in this journey that people are important assets to
success, after all, they are the ones with you in the “battles”, so, it

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