A Story of Two Frogs

The story goes:
 
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a
deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw
how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as
dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the
pit with all their might.  The other frogs kept telling them to stop, saying
that they were as good as dead

Finally, one of the frogs took heed of what the other frogs were saying
and gave up. He fell down and dead. The other frog continued to jump as
hard as he could.

Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.

He jumped even harder and finally made it out.

When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did not you hear us?" 

The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were
encouraging him the entire time

This story teaches two lessons:

There is power of life and death in the tongue; An encouraging word
to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it
through difficult time.  While a destructive word to someone who
is down, can be what it takes to kill them

Be careful what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.
Words are so powerful, sometime it is hard to understand that an
encouraging word can go such a long way.

Keep this in mind, and always be careful and think about what you have to say.

There is a third lesson from this story :
Sometime there are blessings in disguise in our lives.
Just think it this way :
If the frog was not deaf, he must have been dead