One day a crowd of people was walking along the road. Each one carried his own cross on his shoulder. One of them felt all the way that his cross was unbearably heavy. This man decided to outwit his fate: hiding in the forest, he armed himself with an ax and cut off part of his cross, significantly shortening and making it lighter. After this, the cunning man caught up with his companions and, as if nothing had happened, went on with them.
Suddenly a bottomless abyss opened up in front of the walking people. Each of the travelers threw his cross over this abyss and thus got over to the other side. And only the most cunning of them did not know what to do, and remained on this side: his cross turned out to be too short
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru