A time waster or not?

I could be accused of spending too much time looking at various blogs: some would call it wasting time. But every now and then one can find a gem. Take this one, for instance. I found it on a French web site and had Google translate it, after which I rewrote it slightly, so the wording may not be the best.

One day a farmer's donkey fell into a well. The animal groaned piteously for hours and the farmer wondered what to do. Finally, he decided that as the animal was old and there was no profit in retrieving the donkey, the well should be filled in. He called all his neighbours to come and help. They each grabbed a shovel and started to fill in the well.

As soon as the donkey realized what was happening he began screaming terribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he became silent. Some shovelfuls later, the farmer finally looked in the bottom of the well and was astonished at what he saw. As each shovelful of earth fell upon him, the donkey was doing something amazing: he shook himself to remove the earth from his back and climbed onto it. Soon, the donkey came out of the well and began to trot around!

Life will try to get us to swallow all sorts of garbage. The trick is to get out of the hole by climbing over it. Each of our troubles is a stone that allows us to move forward.