Grooms and pitcher (№ 246679)

Three boys love one girl. To choose a husband, she decided to give them a trial. "Whoever would get this pitcher and will call me your wife" - she said, pointing to the vessel, resting on the bottom of the river. "Is this all!?" - exclaimed the first groom and immediately jumped into the water. What was his surprise when he couldn't find the jug. "Oh, no!" he thought - "If I swim out with empty hands, I will be shamed, and she will be a wife to another. It is better to drown!" He stubbornly continued the quest and soon indeed drowned. Seeing this, the second decided that it may suffer the same fate, and in fear fled. Nothing said the third guy, but only climbed a tree growing on the Bank and stripped off its branches pitcher who all this time was reflected in the clean river water.
Don't run from challenges and always analyze the situation before you do anything. Only then will you be able to achieve.