Mending the Fold After Losing Sheep｜亡羊补牢
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原著出处｜战国策·楚策
- Have you ever regretted something
- Thinking if you had made a different choice would the result be different
- Once there was a shepherd
- He raised a flock of white and plump sheep
- Every day he drove the flock to the hillside to graze
- In the evening he drove them back to the sheepfold
- One morning he found a hole in the sheepfold
- A neighbor saw it and said
- Fix the hole quickly Otherwise the wolf will get in and take the sheep
- The shepherd looked at the hole
- He thought the hole was so small how could a wolf get in
- So he waved his hand and said
- The sheep are all fine Why fix the hole It's a waste of time
- The next morning the shepherd came to the sheepfold
- He found one sheep missing
- There were wolf footprints on the ground
- The hole had been torn wider
- The neighbor sighed and said
- I told you to fix it yesterday You didn't listen Now you regret it don't you
- The shepherd hung his head
- He felt sad and regretful
- He thought is it still useful to fix it now The sheep is already gone
- But then he thought if I don't fix it the remaining sheep will be taken by the wolf too
- So he picked up wood and rope
- He firmly patched the hole in the sheepfold
- He even strengthened the whole sheepfold
- From then on his sheep were never lost again
- Later people used mending the fold after losing sheep to mean fixing a problem in time is not too late
- The sheep is already gone
- But if you fix it in time the remaining sheep can still be saved
- Life is the same way
- Making mistakes is not terrible
- What's terrible is knowing you're wrong but not correcting it
