There was an old woman who apparently had no reason to live. Her entire family had either died or abandoned her, she owed a great deal of money, and to boot, she was nearly blind.
One day, the woman fell into a deep well, and there was nobody to hear her cries for help. She slept the night, and she woke in the morning to find that people above-ground were actually throwing dirt on her.
Above, workers had been instructed to fill in that old useless well. When she cried up to them for mercy, they replied that they were under strict orders to fill in this well, and quite frankly, her life was not worth slowing down the project.
Now she was to be buried alive. . .the horror!! She cried for a while regarding her plight, but then she noticed that as long as she shook off the dirt being thrown at her, she could step on it, and gain higher footing.
And so doing for a few hours, the lady then stepped out of the well, smiled, and said a sincere, "Thank You" to the shovelers.
2006-07-07
12:58:08
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