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When you are frustrated, don’t feel you’re a special victim. If you could take the “frustration survey”, you would feel better, because everybody: Puts time and effort into work which turns out to be useless; runs into several snags on any undertaking; finds his efforts undone by somebody else; gets further delayed when he is already late. Can’t find some indispensable tool or piece of paper when he’s all ready to start a project; does a good job for which someone else is rewarded; loses out on something which was almost in the bag.

Finds an apparently simple task difficult to do; often fails to get what he wants; has his best-laid plans fall apart; now and then finds everything just too much for him.

High up in the crotch of a tree a mother bird sat on the eggs in her nest. Then she suddenly noticed a python slowly silently slithering towards her. The poor bird, what could she do to protect her eggs from the menacing snake? A monkey came by, saw the situation and told the mother bird, ” Don’t be afraid. I’ll get rid of that python; I’ll throw stones at him.’ ” But then you’ll break my eggs,’ the mother bird said. Along rumbled a big elephant. He too, saw the dangerous situation and assured the mother bird, “Relax and stop crying. I’ll get rid of that python; I’ll pull that tree right out of the ground.”

“Wait a minute,”said the mother bird. “Then you’ll break all my eggs.’ With that the mother bird came to the conclusion that the giants of the forest were not able to drive away the python without breaking her eggs. Suddenly thousands of them came running right up the tree trunk, covered the python completely from nose to tail tip, and left nothing of him except his skin and skeleton.

“Bravo!” said the mother bird to her heroes. ” Now my young ones are safe and I can get back to work.”