One day, a shepherd offended one man, and he harbored a grudge against him and decided to take revenge on him. He knew that he was grazing animals in a remote place where almost no one walked, and decided to take advantage of this and dig a deep hole for him to fall into. Late at night he started digging. When he was digging, he imagined how his offender would fall into it and, perhaps, break something for himself or die in it, not being able to get out of there. Or, at the very least, his cow, sheep, or, at worst, a goat will fall into the hole. He dug long and persistently, dreaming of revenge, that he did not notice how the hole was getting deeper and deeper. But then, dawn broke, and he woke up from his thoughts. And what was his surprise when he saw that during this time he had dug such a deep hole that he himself would no longer be able to get out of it. Therefore, before you even mentally dig a hole for someone else, remember that in order to dig it, you yourself will have to find yourself in it, because the first one in it is the one who digs it. And before you get anyone dirty, you have to get your hands dirty first.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru