With every downfall in our lives we should learn something from it. We should shake the dirt from our shoulders & carry on.

A donkey falls into a well. The donkey makes a lot of noise in hopes that someone will rescue him. The owner of the well sympathizes with the donkey's problem, but decides it would be too much trouble to save either the animal or the well. So she decides to fill the well with dirt to put the donkey out of its misery and to keep any other creatures from falling into it. As she begins to shovel dirt into the well, the poor donkey begins to panic. But eventually, the donkey gets an idea. Every time a shovel full of dirt hits him, he shakes it off. As the dirt builds up around him, he steps up onto it. This takes some time, but he faithfully chooses to avoid panic and as the dirt hits him, he just shakes it off and steps up. Of course, as you've guessed, eventually he has (one step up at a time) managed to get out of the well. The situation that seemed so horrible to him actually became an opportunity for escape.