One day a father sent his son to the forest on business. And the son says:
- Father, how can I be there alone? I don't know anything, I can't do anything.
“It’s okay, go,” his father tells him, “necessity will teach you everything.”
My son went. But in the forest his sleigh broke down. He remembered his father’s words about need, which “will teach you everything,” and let’s shout:
- Need!
And the echo answers him:
-Ah!
He waited, waited, shouted, shouted, but no one came to his aid. Then he got down, somehow straightened the sleigh himself, came to his father and said:
“You deceived me, father: after all, need did not come to my aid.”
- How did you cope?
- Yes, somehow.
“This is the very thing that you somehow managed, and it shows that need helped you.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru