A poor donkey had been patiently carrying his heavy load all day long without a moment’s respite. He had not even been allowed to stop to pee. Finally, his owner reached his destination, and the donkey was relieved of the merchandise heaped on his back. Free at last from his burden, the beast happily emptied his full bladder.
A short distance away, a tiny fly was resting on a leaf lying on the ground. The donkey’s urine, flying downstream, began to carry the leaf with the fly on it. The fly was initially taken aback, not quite understanding what was happening. After a little while, though, she began to believe: “I’m sailing away on the sea. I’m the captain of this ship, and what a perfectly seasoned navigator I am! Who dares to stop me now?”
The fly was gloating in her pride, floating on the stream of urine, believing that she was sailing the seven seas. Unbeknown to her, she was still the same lowly fly she’d always been, driving along by the furious pace of the urine’s flow, unaware that nothing truly is as it seems.
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