The Boy and the Bee

One day, a boy was playing in the garden and found a beehive. Without hesitation, he stoned the hive. The bee zeroed in on the boy, attacking him like a diving bomber, stinging him just above the eye. The boy swatted frantically at the bee, fell on the ground in agony, kicking and screaming.
His father heard him crying and brought him inside the house to give him first aid. While checking on the area where the boy was stung, his father noticed a little black stinger stuck in the brow above the boy’s eye. He removed the stinger and assured his son it would be healed in the next few days.
After a week, father brought the boy in the garden to look where the bees are hiving. To show his son that they could over power the bees, father raided the hives.
The same bee headed towards the boy, and buzzed around his head. The terrified boy hit the ground, rolling and screaming.
Father rushed over to the boy, picked him up and told him to stop crying. “The bee is harmless”, he said. “It can’t hurt you. It has lost its sting”. He further said, when the bee leaves its stinger in the victim, form then on it is perfectly harmless. The bee can still buzz and scare you, but it is the powerless to hurt you “again”.
The story above could be related to people on how to overcome problems. It is just a matter of attitude on how to handle a situation during times of trouble.
Problems can hurt a person especially if he is not emotionally ready to confront it. Sometimes, it is fatal when not properly handled.
However, if a person survives the first test of his life, succeeding problems can scare him but can’t hurt him.
Problems are part of human’s lives. They shape human to maturity. These make a man stronger, emotionally and spiritually.

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