Be ridiculous at some point

THE MAN AND THE IMAGE

A poor man had a wooden image of a god, to which he used to pray daily for riches. He did this for a long time, but remained as poor as ever, till one day he caught up the image in disgust and hurled it with all his strength against the wall.

The force of the blow split open the head, and a quantity of gold coins fell out upon the floor. The man gathered them up greedily, and said, “O you old fraud, you! When I honored you, you did me no good whatever; but no sooner do I treat you to insults and violence than you make a rich man of me!”

Adopted from Aesop fables

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Moral:

At some point if things continuously get against you, maybe, just maybe you need to be somewhat ridiculous.