一个农夫的驴子不小心掉进了枯井里，想了很多的办法都无法救出驴子，于是农夫决定放弃，他想驴子年纪大了，不值得大费周折去把它救出来，就请左邻右舍帮忙把驴子埋了，以免除驴子的痛苦。可是当铲进井里的泥土落在驴子的背上时，驴子竟然将泥土抖落在一旁，然后站在泥土堆上面，很快驴子便上升到井口。
如同驴子的情况一样，在生命的旅程中，我们也难免会落入枯井里，各式各样的泥沙会倾倒在我们身上，而脱离枯井的秘诀就是：将泥沙抖落掉，然后站到上面去！所以失败和困境并不可怕，看似困难和挫折给我们带来厄境，其实往往锻炼了我们。一切都决定于我们自己，就像把泥沙看做垫脚石，学会换个角度看问题，带来的结果必定是海阔天空。
译文:
Learn from A Donkey Story
A peasant's donkey falls incautiously into a dried well. The peasant exhausts his ideas but fails to save it. So, he decides to give it up for it's an old animal and not worth saving it difficultly. After decision, he asks for neighbours' help to bury the donkey in order to terminate its pain. The animal, however, shakes actually off earth aside which is shovelled onto its back by the people and stands on the rideau. Soon, it is up to the mouth of the well.
Similar to the situation of the donkey, in our trip of life, we are hard to avoid falling into wells. Various clays will be dumped onto our bodies. But there is just a secret to escape from dried well: Shaking off all mud and sand and standing on them! Therefore, failure and scrape are not frightful. Seemly, they bring adversity to us. In the fact, however, we take exercise from them. Everything lies on our decision which is alike we regard mud and sand as stepping-stone. If you change your view point of trouble, it must walk towards good side.