Once a frog living in an abandoned well met a giant turtle. He said to the turtle: "Look how happy I am. I can jump around the railings of the well and play if I like. When I'm tired, I can nestle myself beside the brick wall under the well to rest or I may quietly bathe my body inside the water with only my head and mouth above the water. It feels really comfortable to put my feet in the mud. The shrimps and the tadpoles are no match for me. I��m the master of the well. Why not come and have a tour to my well?"

But the turtle was stuck and could only put his left foot inside the well.

Stepping back, the turtle began to tell the frog what the sea is like.

"A thousand miles may be a long distance to you. But the sea is far broader than that. A thousand meters may not describe the depth of it. A long time ago, it rained for nine years consecutively but the waters didn't see the slightest change in volume. Neither did the sea get any smaller in the face of seven years of severe drought. Nothing can change it. One can only be happy living in a place like that.

The totally dumbfounded frog began to feel his own insignificance.

The fable tells people to be modest and never be too carried away by any small personal achievements.