Most of the moral stories which we read often had a very definite moral - Do this or don't do this. Don't be greedy, don't lie, work hard etc etc. However, the story of the fox and the grapes has no such definite moral. The fox tried and tried to get hold of the grapes and when he did not, he said the grapes are sour and left. I often wondered, what did the author want to say? Was the fox right in his action? Growing up, I was very sure the fox was a failure , a "sore loser" - and that is not what we should be. But as life unfolds, we often see things with a different perspective. This story recently came back to me and I started to think, well why was the fox wrong? The story did say he tried a lot. Given that the story is about a fox which is generally considered a clever animal, I started to see another side to this story. May be the fox was indeed clever at giving up and making peace with it by blaming it on the grapes. May be this story needed some unfo
I have an utter disregard for gadgets,while the whole world around me seems to be smitten by their charm. The complication is that, my work is related to that world of gadgets. So if in case, people start to share my apathy for gadgets, I would actually be right on the roads to joblessness. Now,I see everyone around me having a phone with a music player, a camera, as an internet device as everything… and then I hear the reason for that because people do not have to carry all of these separately. But, when was the last time we needed all three at the same time? So here is what I have heard a lot of times .. we go for a trip and we did not remember to bring the camera…so I have my phone or my iPad which will help me in taking all my pictures.. really? If you ask me, you were irresponsible in forgetting your camera and the laws of nature say that any irresponsible action should bear with its consequences. People around me look like cranky kids who just think of something they want a