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“Good Things” and “Bad Things”

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　“Good things” had been living with “bad things”,

　but were kicked out by “bad things“ because they were less powerful.

　So “good things” went up to the sky reluctantly.

　And they asked the Zeus who lives high above the sky,

“How can we associate with people from now on?”

　 The Zeus said,

“If all of you go down at the same time, ‘bad things’ may kick you out again, so go one by one.”

　This is how “bad things”, who live close to people, attack them all the time,

　while “good things”, who must come down from the sky one by one, visit people only occasionally.


　This story explains why “good things” hardly ever come to us,

　but “bad things” happen so often.

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