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Once upon a time there was a woodcutter who one day realized that he didn't have his axe.
Surprised and with tears in his eyes, he met his neighbor near his house, who, as he always did,
greeted him smilingly and kindly.
As he entered his house, the woodcutter suddenly became suspicious and thought that
perhaps it was the neighbor who had stolen his axe. In fact, now that he thought about it, his
smile seemed nervous, he had a strange look on his face and I would have even said that his
hands were shaking. Come to think of it, the neighbor had the same expression as a thief, he
walked like a thief and talked like a thief.
The woodcutter was thinking about all this, increasingly convinced that he had found the
culprit of the theft, when he suddenly realized that his steps had taken him back to the forest
where he had been the night before.
Suddenly, he tripped on something hard and fell. When he looked at the ground...he found his
axe! The woodcutter returned to the home with the axe, repenting of his suspicions, and when
he saw his neighbor again he saw that his expression, walk, and manner of speaking were (and
had been in all the time) the usual ones.
What happened?
to the lumberjack
It serves to learn that sometimes our thoughts and suspicions make us have distorted
perceptions of reality.
suspicion