Life Lesson - The Hunter and The Rabbit

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There was once a hunter who lives deep in a jungle, every day early in the morning, he will check whether an animal has been caught in the trap that he set the previous day. He was lucky enough when one of his trap has caught a small rabbit, the rabbit struggled to set it self-free, but its left hind leg is tightly tied to a rope. The hunter caught the rabbit, cut it loose and was about to strangle it, but the rabbit asked him to stop.

The hunter was surprised when he heard the rabbit spoke. He has never seen a talking rabbit before in his life. "What are you going to do at me?", asked the small rabbit. "I was thinking about to kill you and make you into a stew since you are so tiny", replied the hunter. "Don't kill me, it doesn't worth it, I'm too tiny to fill your hunger", plead the rabbit. "Instead, let me free and I will give you three valuable advice", said the rabbit. The hunter was so curious to know about the three advice so he made a deal with the rabbit.

"These are my terms, please listen carefully", said the rabbit. "Before you let me loose, I will tell you the first advice, after you let me go, I will tell you the second advice, I will tell you about the third advice when I am further enough from you", said the rabbit again, and the hunter agreed. "The first advice is, do not regret a decision that made you lose something as precious as your life", tell the rabbit. The hunter couldn't understand it, but as promised, he let go the rabbit from his grasp, and the rabbit jumped a few yards and stood on top of a big rock.

"My second advice is, do not believe everything that you have heard without knowing the actual facts", said the rabbit. The hunter is beginning to be more puzzled than before, he couldn't understand a thing about the two pieces of advice given by the rabbit. The rabbit than ran even further away from the hunter and then turned around and told the hunter, "you are such an unfortunate human, if you have killed me just now and cut me open, you would have found two pieces of diamonds weighing about 500 grams each inside of me", the rabbit laughed. The hunter was so surprised when he heard what the rabbit has told him, he felt so cheated, "I'm such an idiot for letting go such precious opportunity from the grasp of my hand", the hunter thought, he is filled with deep regret. "Well, you can at least tell me the third advice", said the hunter.

"How stupid are you asking for the third advice, when you can't even understand the first and the second advice that I have given you", said the rabbit. "I've told you before, do not regret your decision and do not simply believe what you have heard from others, but you're doing both things at the moment. You regret letting me go and believing what I have told you about the diamond inside of me. Think carefully you idiot, my tiny body couldn't have weighed more than one kilograms? It doesn't make sense to believe that there are two big diamonds inside of me", said the rabbit.

"My third advice is, giving an advice to a bunch of stupid people like you is like spreading dozens of seeds in the dry desert, it is useless and unbeneficial!", said the little rabbit before he ran away, leaving the stupid hunter in disdain.

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