One day a little lamb was drinking water by the river.It had just reached the water’s edge when a hungry wolf passed by.The wolf had been starving for a long time, and when he saw that the lamb was fat and white, his mouth was watering.
However, the wolf also knows that it is not good to pounce on the sheep directly, it wants to find a “legitimate reason” to eat the sheep.So it ran to the upper reaches of the river, and yelled at the lamb: “Hey!You unruly little thing!You muddied the water when you drank it and made it impossible for me to drink it, so I’m going to punish you!”
Hearing this, the lamb hurriedly explained, “Brother Wolf, I’m standing here downstream, so how could I have muddied the water upstream?I am just quietly drinking water.”
The wolf saw that this excuse was recognized, and was a little embarrassed, but it did not admit defeat, and changed its story, “Humph!When my father passed by here last year, you offended him like this too!”
The lamb heard more aggrieved, and quickly said, “This is really wronged me!I wasn’t even born then, how could I have offended your father?”
The wolf was dumbfounded by the lamb, and his face turned red with anger.It finally stopped pretending, revealed its sharp teeth and pointed claws, and said viciously, “I don’t care about that!I’m going to eat you today!”After saying that, it swooped down and took the lamb away.
What happened behind this story?
On the surface, this is a simple fable about a wolf who wants to eat a sheep but finds all kinds of excuses to cover up his malice.In fact, this story reveals a very real problem: some people obviously have impure motives and malicious intentions, but they always pretend to be justified and use all kinds of reasons to bully others.
At first, the wolf tries to use the excuse that “the lamb made the water dirty” to stir up trouble, but the lamb points out the logical loophole; then he brings up the excuse that “the father was insulted”, which is also refuted by the lamb.After two failures, the wolf finally tore off his disguise and revealed his true face – it was not for justice or fairness at all, but only to satisfy his own desires.
What does this story tell us?**
The core truth of this story is: It’s useless to reason in the face of bad people.They have already made up their minds to do bad things, and the so-called “reasons” are just used to cover up their behavior.
We also encounter similar situations in our lives.For example, someone wants to ostracize you, bully you, but he will not admit it directly, but will find some seemingly reasonable reasons, such as you “bad attitude”, “do not fit in” and so on.In fact, these are not the real reason, but just his own in order to make himself look more reasonable and made up excuses.
Therefore, we need to learn to recognize these “fake excuses” and not to be confused by superficial reasons.At the same time, we also need to understand that sometimes it is not that we have done something wrong, but that the other party has a malicious intent towards you.
To summarize:
- The wolf wanted to eat the sheep, but didn’t want to be told it was doing something bad;
- It makes two excuses, both of which are dismissed one by one by the lamb;
- In the end, the wolf simply doesn’t reason and just does it;
- This shows that:** Bad people never need a real reason, they just need an excuse that sounds decent.**
This story is simple, but very inspiring to reality.It reminds us not to waste time arguing in the face of unreasonable people.The important thing is to protect yourself from those bad people who wear the “cloak of justice”.
