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An old Indian legend about a monkey trapped in a jar because it won't let go of a banana becomes a metaphor for how people cling to anger, bad relationships, and past pain. Letting go is the only way out.

An old Indian legend about a monkey trapped in a jar because it won't let go of a banana becomes a metaphor for how people cling to anger, bad relationships, and past pain. Letting go is the only way out.
This is how you catch a monkey. You put a jar under a tree and put a banana inside. The monkey comes down from the forest, puts its hand in the jar to grab the banana, and it's stuck. The open hand can fit in the jar, but the closed hand cannot come out, and the monkey is caught. This is an old Indian legend with a lesson for humans today. Humans are just like monkeys. We cannot We hold on to bad relationships. We hold on to anger, to pain, to things that are already over. And then we get stuck. So remember the story of the monkey and the banana. If you keep holding on, you get trapped. But when you let go, you get what you want. That's one minute. See you tomorrow.