一匹曾经驮着主人驰骋沙场的战马，感到自己年事已高，便选择离开战场，到一个磨坊里去工作。他发现自己再也无法在听到战鼓雷鸣时昂头挺胸地前进了，只能被迫埋头于终日磨谷子的劳作之中。战马垂头丧气地哀叹着自己的命运，有一天，他对磨坊主说：“唉，我曾经可是一匹光彩照人的战马，不仅披着华丽的战袍，而且还有专门的马倌照顾我。现如今，我这是什么下场呀！真希望我当初没有离开战场，为什么要到这个磨坊来呀。”磨坊主粗暴地回答说：“不必追悔过去，命运总会有所起伏，随缘而安就好了。”
【战马和磨坊主的故事寓意】
通过阅读战马和磨坊主这篇寓言故事，我懂得了，怀念过去是人之常情，毕竟回忆是美好的，深刻的，令人难忘。然而终日沉于回忆之中，就会失去“现在”，我们谁也不可能总过着一成不变的生活，一辈子起起落落很正常。时而荣华富贵，时而艰难困苦，不管境遇如何，都应以一种平和的心态去面对，要有随遇而安的准备，否则只会让自己更加痛苦。
【战马和磨坊主的英文版】
THE CHARGER AND THE MILLER
A Horse，who had been used to carry his rider Into battle，feIt himself growing old and chose to work in a mill instead.He now no longer found himself stepping out proudly to the beating of the drums，but was compelled to slave away all day grinding the corn.Bewailing his hard lot，he said one day to the Miller,“Ah me!I was once a splendid war-horse，gaily caparisoned，and attended by a groom whose sole duty was to see to my wants.How different is my present condition!i wish I had never given up the battlefield for the mill.”The Miller replied with asperity,“It’S no use your regretting the past.Fortune has many ups and downs：you must iust take them as they come.”