There once was an ax that had no handle. The trees then decided that one of them would give him the wood to make a handle. A woodcutter, finding an ax with a new handle, began to cut down the forest. One tree said to another:
— We ourselves are to blame for what is happening. If we hadn’t given the ax a handle, we would be free of him now.
In the story of the trees and the ax we see that the trees, alone, helped the old ax without a handle and ended up being victims of injustice.
Full of good intentions, they came together to solve the ax problem. What they didn’t know was that the consequence of helping others was compromising their own future.
The story illustrates that, sometimes, we are motivated by good intentions, but end up receiving a punishment in return that we did not deserve.
