Hey there! I'm glad to have you here again! How do we respond to obstacles, and how do we deal with them. In this blog post I hope to give some valuable advice about the way we respond to obstacles in our lives, I hope to give some tools on how we could respond to obstacles, and how you can use these obstacles to grow. I want to take you on a journey through my mind. #motivational

A short inspirational story I want to share with you,

Maybe there are some of you that know the story of the king and the stone, and some of you might see a wise lesson in this story. It's not written by me actually ( double sorry) BUT I think and believe that it's not bad to share this valuable lesson.

It's a well-known story, but I don't know if everybody is already familiar with this motivational story. But in my opinion, this story is pretty interesting

The king and the stone

There was once a wise king And wanted to teach his nation a lesson, He said the good things of life are to people who take matters into their own hand. So one night while everybody was sleeping, he placed a large stone on the road that led past his palace. Then he hid behind a hedge and waited to see what would happen. First, a farmer came over with his wagon heavily loaded filled with grain which he was taking to the mill to be ground. “Well, whoever saw such carelessness?” he said crossly, as he turned his team and drove around the stone. “Why don’t these lazy people have that rock taken from the road?” And so he went on complaining of the uselessness of others, but not touching the stone himself.

Soon afterwards, a young soldier came singing along the road. The long plume of his cap waved in the breeze, and a bright sword hung at his side. He was thinking of the wonderful bravery he would show in the war. The soldier did not see the stone, but struck his foot against it and went sprawling in the dust. He rose to his feet, shook the dust from his clothes, picked up his sword, and stormed angrily about the lazy people who had no more sense than to leave such a huge rock in the road. Then he, too, walked away, not once thinking that he might move it himself.

So the day passed. Everyone who came by complained and whined because the stone lay in the road, but no one touched it.

At last, just at nightfall, the miller’s daughter came past. She was a hard-working girl, and was very tired, because she had been busy since early morning at the mill. But she said to herself, “It is almost dark. Somebody may fall over this stone in the night, and perhaps he could be badly hurt. I will move it out of the way.”

So she tugged at the heavy stone. It was hard to move, but she pulled and pulled, and pushed, and lifted until at last she moved it from its place. To her surprise, she found a box underneath. She lifted the box. It was heavy, for it was filled with something.

Upon it was written: “This box belongs to the one who moves the stone.” She opened the lid, and found it was full of gold! The miller’s daughter went home with a happy heart.

When the farmer and the soldier and all the others heard what had happened, they gathered around the spot in the road where the stone had been. They scratched at the dust with their feet, hoping to turn up a piece of gold.

“My friends,” said the king, “we often find obstacles and burdens in our way. We may complain out loud while we walk around them if we choose, or we can lift them and find out what they mean. Disappointment is usually the price of laziness.” Then the wise king mounted his horse and, with a polite “Good evening,” rode away.

This story I shared with u guys because it's pretty inspiring and interesting.

In my life I also face many obstacles it's not always about roses, But in the end, it's up to me how I respond to the struggles in my life. Am I going to sit and wait until a wonder happens to me? Or am I really going to chase my goal?. Where are you in this story?