A donkey was tied to a tree. The Devil came and untied it. The donkey ran into the fields and started destroying the crop. The farmer’s wife saw this and shot the donkey dead. The donkey’s owner was upset, so shot the farmer’s wife. The farmer came back to see his wife dead. He went and shot the donkey’s owner. The wife of the owner of the donkey asked her sons to go and burn the house of the farmer. The boys went late evening and carried out their mother’s orders, happily assuming that the farmer too would have been burnt with the house. Sadly for them it wasn’t that, so the farmer came back and shot the wife and the two sons of the owner of the donkey. Remorseful, the farmer asked the Devil why did all this have to happen?
The Devil said, “I did nothing. I only released the donkey but all of you overacted and released the Inner devil. So the next time before repling, responding, reporting and rebunking, Stop and think. “Be careful.Many a time what the Devil does is that it just releases the donkey in us.”

P.S: This is an intresting story but, the story line seems to have a flaw in it. Anyway, I dint bother much.However the story made me think and reflect on human emotions. We may not have the ability control all the things and situations happening to us but, certainly we have control over our emotions and how we react to them. And, the way we react to things depends on our state of mind, mindset and well being. Bit trickey, in the current stressful times and the way world is going. Be positive but dont get tested positive for COVID.