An Ass, carrying a load of wood, was passing through a pond. As He was crossing through the water He lost his footing, stumbled, and fell.
Because of the load He was carrying on, the Ass felt that he was not able to rise on account of it. Then He started to groan heavily.
Some Frogs, that frequently used the pool, heard the lamentation coming from the Ass and said to Him: "What would you do if without a choice you have to live here always as we do? You just only have a mere fall into the water but you are making a big fuss about it."
The symbolic tale shows us that we as people often bear little grievances with less courage as if they were large misfortunes.
This tale was written by Aesop (620-564 BCE), an ancient Greek. He was a great story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Many of them were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a story telling tradition that continues to this day.
Many of the tales are characterized by animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics, and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a saying.
