Courageous Frog

By: Dr. Sahar Al-Khshramy

Director of Disabilities Service Center  

Feeling sorry for reshuffles in people lives, a university member of staff relieved my bitterness, narrating a nice tale, maybe because she knew I  worked in special education field.

The tale is about a group of frogs which decided to climb a long-zigzagged mountain. They pinned hopes to reach the peak. While going up, other group of frogs watching them tried to dishearten them and said, "You can't go up. You will fall down!". Affected by discouragers, the climbers felt down one after another save one frog. It did not listen to shouts; went up; and shouted "I did it ! I did it!"

Wondering how the frog did it, the disheartening frog  asked him about the secret and they were surprised that the frog could not hear them since it was dumb! The frog did not hear them nor did it feel their disheartening thanks to the blessing the frog had. It did it, despite that some thought that it was not a blessing.

I liked the tale and smiled when knew that we together turned back to obstacles and did not care about despair. I decide to copycat the hard hearing frog and not to listen to ill-wishers who want to abort the process of change!