The King and his Leather Shoe

A King decided to walk around his kingdom to see how his people were doing. Just a few steps out of his castle, his foot was injured by a stone lying unseen on the road. He thought, "So the road in my kingdom is this bad. I have got to get it fixed."

The King then summoned all his ministers. He ordered to have all the road in his kingdom be layered with the best of leathers. As soon as it was ordered, the ministers started getting the things ready, they gathered the cows from the whole country of the kingdom only to be made into leather.

The Ministers were surprised with the King's order and have no choice but to follow.Then along  came a wise and brave man who said to the King, "O the Powerful One, why would you have to make so much leather just to cover the whole roads spreading throughout the country when actually what you really need is just two pieces of leather to cover your soles?

The King was surprised, but he agreed to the wise man's suggestion to make a shoe for himself.




A wise man do not force the circumstances to adapt to himself, instead he adapts himself to the circumstances as water shaped itself to the vessel that contains it.