A long time ago, a king built a huge palace. It was a palace with millions of mirrors. Absolutely all the walls, floors and ceilings of the palace were covered with mirrors.
One day a dog ran into the palace. Looking around, she saw many dogs around her. Dogs were everywhere. Being a very intelligent dog, she bared her teeth, just in case, to protect herself from these millions of dogs surrounding her and to scare them. All the dogs bared their teeth in response. She growled - they answered her with a threat.
Now the dog was sure that its life was in danger, and began to bark. She had to tense up, she began to bark with all her might, very desperately. But when she barked, those millions of dogs also began to bark. And the more she barked, the more they answered her.
This morning this unfortunate dog was found dead. And she was there alone, in that palace there were only millions of mirrors. No one fought with her, there was no one at all who could fight, but she saw herself in the mirrors and was scared. And when she began to fight, the reflections in the mirrors also began to fight. She died in the fight against millions of her own reflections surrounding her.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru