Everything will be well

One African king had a close friend with whom he grew up. This friend, considering any situation that ever happened in his life, whether positive or negative, had the habit of saying, “It’s good!”

One day, the king and his friend were hunting. A friend prepared and loaded guns for the king. Obviously, he did something wrong, preparing one of the rifles, and when the king took a gun from his friend and shot from it, his thumb of his hand was torn off. Investigating the situation, a friend said as usual, "It's good!"The king replied, "No, it's not good!" and ordered to send his friend to jail.

About a year later, the king hunted in an area where he thought he could be completely fearless. But the cannibals captured him and brought him to his village with all the others. They tied his hands, pulled a bunch of wood, set up a pillar and tied the king to the pillar. When they approached closer to fire, they noticed that the king lacked a big finger on his hand. Because of their superstition, they never ate a man who had a weakness in his body. When the king was loosed, they let him go.

When he returned home, he remembered the case when he lost his finger, and felt a bite of conscience for his treatment of a friend. He went to jail to talk to him.

“You were right,” he said, “it was good that I was left without a finger.

He told me everything that just happened to him.

“I’m very sorry to put you in jail, it was bad on my part.

“No,” said his friend, “it’s good!

What are you saying? Is it good that I put my friend in jail for a year?

If I had not been in prison, I would have been there with you and I would have been eaten.