There was once a man who
was terrified of his own shadow and lived in fear of the sound of his own
footsteps…he was walking along one day and suddenly he began to panic and tried
to flee at top speed...but as fast as he ran, his shadow and footsteps kept up
with him and made him run all the faster…until he finally collapsed of
exhaustion and died…if he had only sat down under the shade of a tree, he would
no longer have been able to see his shadow or hear his own footsteps and he
could have rested in peace and contemplated his fear.
