One man met a wild horse in the forest and took it for himself.
- Wow! - the neighbors said, so you took it and got a horse, you’re lucky!
“I don’t know if I was lucky or not...” he answered.
His son began to ride around this horse, it was wayward, and threw him off.
He broke both legs.
- Ah! What a misfortune! - the neighbors exclaimed - how bad!
“I don’t know whether this is good or bad,” the man answered.
Soon the war began and all suitable young men were taken into the army.
The neighbors' sons also went to war and died.
“It’s good for you,” said the people left without children, “your son is alive.”
“I don’t know whether this is good or bad,” the man answered as before...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru