Weekend Story- A Man And His Shadow

There was once a man who was tormented by the sight of his own shadow and the sound of his own footsteps, and he was determined to get rid of both by running away from them. 

Yet, with every step he took, another echoed, and his shadow persisted. He was convinced he wasn’t moving swiftly enough, so he hastened. But, to his dismay, the faster he ran, the quicker his shadow seemed to chase him until he finally succumbed to exhaustion.

What the man failed to grasp was that he could have made his shadow vanish by simply stepping into the shade and that if he had chosen to sit down and be still, there would have been no more footsteps to disturb him.