Its all how you look at it!

One day a king and his servant were out hunting. They both loved to hunt and always went together. They’d work as a team and always managed to catch something. Well, this particular day, they were chasing a deer. As they got close to it, the kind commanded his servant to load his gun for him. The servant obeyed, but as he did so, the gun accidentally went off and shot off the king’s thumb. The servant apologized profusely and reminded the king that something good could come from this, if he just chose to look at it as a blessing. The king however, was outraged and sent the servant to the dungeon. Several weeks passed, and the king hunted alone. He was still feeling really upset and wasn’t paying attention to where he was going. Before he knew it he had left his kingdom and had entered the land of the cannibals. He was captured and was being prepared to be killed and eaten, when the cannibals suddenly noticed his missing thumb. Much to his surprise, they immediately untied him and let him go. The king returned to his palace unharmed only to learn later that the cannibals never ate anybody who was missing a part of their body. The believed it would bring trouble to them. The king suddenly realized that his life had been spared only because of the actions of his servant. Feeling awful for the way he had treated his servant, he rushed to the dungeon, released the servant and apologized over and over for the way the servant had been treated in the dungeon. The servant only smiled and said “No, actually, being in the dungeon was just as much a blessing to me, as your thumb being shot off was to you!” The king was puzzled and wondered what good could possibly come from spending several weeks in the dungeon. The servant replied “Well, your highness, if you hadn’t thrown me in the dungeon, I would no doubt have been hunting right alongside of you, and since I am perfectly whole, the cannibals wouldn’t have spared my life.”