Name: 10 Very Old Stories that will change your life
Uploaded: 2026-01-13T16:58:02.000Z
Duration: 12 min 38 s
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This mom cuts the head and the tail off a fish before cooking it.

The mom says, because my mom did it that way.

So the daughter calls Grandma and asks the same question.

Grandma says, because my mom did it that way.

So the daughter visits Great Grandma and asks the same question.

Why do we cut the head and the tail of the fish?

The Great Grandma Grandma laughs and says, oh, I only cut it because in 1950, my pan was too small.

Great Grandma just had a tiny pan and we never questioned it.

We do this in life, in religion, in culture, in government.

We follow tradition and we don't know why.

So maybe it's time to ask why a little bit more often.

If you throw a frog into boiling water, it jumps out immediately.

It knows it's in danger and it saves its life.

What the heck, Bro, did you just try to kill me?

But if you put it in warm water and slowly turn up the heat.

The frog dies, not because it couldn't jump, but because it didn't notice in time.

Sometimes danger doesn't hit you all at once.

A toxic relationship, a bad job, a terrible living condition.

So ask yourself, what pot are you sitting in?

But then they see a woman struggling to cross a river.

Without a word, the old monk lifts her, walks through the river, sets her down safely on the other side.

The old monk is happy, but the young monk is angry inside.

The old monk smiles and says, I left the woman hours ago.

The heaviest thoughts live in our mind, not our shoulders.

Listen to the old monk and drop the weight of your angry thoughts.

A professor puts a rock in an empty jar one by one, and the jar is full.

They fall into the spaces between the rocks.

The class is amazed, and the professor says this jar represents your life.

The rocks, he says, are the most important things.

That's noise, Social media, gossip, Netflix.

If you fill your jar with water first, there is no room for the rocks.

But if you start with the big things, everything else will find space around them.

Make sure the important, important things go in first.

A parent hits their kid with an arrow to the heart.

The kid grows up, but the armor stays there.

He can't hug, can't cry, can't have fun, can't say, I'm not okay.

People say, wow, you've got it all together.

The arrows stopped years ago, but the armor stayed.

And now it's not protection, it's prison.

We all wear emotional armor to look strong and survive as kids.

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