The Frog in the Forest

Sukij was the person who originally told this story.

A frog fell in a well in a forest and started jumping and jumping. His frog friends gathered around the top and started yelling to him to give up as it was totally useless. They could see that there was literally no possibility of jumping high enough to get out of the well.

Strangely, no matter how much they told him to stop, he seemed to work harder and even jump higher. So they increased their yelling and said it is totally a waste of time and just to abandon all hope.

Then in one giant leap the frog made the biggest jump of all and landed on the leaves and grass just outside of the well.

The other frogs all gathered around him, amazed that he jumped that high. One of the frogs who was doing much of the yelling said, we couldn’t understand why you kept jumping when we said it was futile.

Oh, said the frog, I didn’t know you said that, I am sort of hard of hearing and I thought you were cheering me on and telling me that you believed in me and that I could do it.

I had doubts, but it was your faith in me that kept me going.
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