There can't be a story about an oasis without suffering. The very particular need of defining an oasis is in describing the care and relief upon discovery. So, understandably when thinking of the result, we think of the process and get stuck there at the oasis. None of the stories as a child ever talked about leaving the languid pool to suffer again, only in reaching the goal. When we think of our lives as passages and a simple oasis' in our midst with friends and family, births and deaths, we continually move on, beyond the oasis and hardly notice our travels beginning again.
Universal truth is in seeing the oasis as a problem solver for weary travelers.
No one ever would refuse the oasis. A fool perhaps could somehow miss the opportunity that the oasis gives us for rebirth. What an unfortunate soul to not read the signs correctly and pass by a partial mile the salvation of his misery. It is a diversion from our path when we do not think beyond the oasis. To travel, to suffer and to find relief is the simplest of endings, but we need to move beyond.