There was a man walking down the street who fell into a hole. He couldn't get out. A priest walked by, and the man asked him for help. The priest wrote out a prayer and tossed it in the hole. A professor walked by and again the man asked for help. The learned man studied the problem and recommended a complex solution.
Just then a friend walked by, saw his buddy in the hole, and jumped in with him. The man said, "What are you doing? Now we're both stuck!" His friend said, "No, I've been down here before, and I know the way out."
The pitfalls of life aren't so seemingly impossible to exit.