We have to admit that people who pretend to despise something
since they are hard to reach it.
The Fox and The Grapes
A hot summer day,
a fox walked through an orchard,
it stopped at the front bunch of ripe and juicy grapes.
"I haven't had a bite since this morning."
"I am thirsty now."
Then he stepped back, forward a punch, then jump,
but can not reach the grapes.
Fox stepped back and continued to try enough grapes.
One, two, three times,
but still can not reach the grapes.
Fox was tired, it was hard to jump anymore.
He sat down and he looked at the grapes in contempt,
said that,
"I am a fox"
"getting a bunch of sour grapes is not worth to me."
Then he left, and walked with disdainful and never looked back.
After the fox came back to the forest, he told other rabbits, monkeys, and other animals,
"Don't get the grapes, they are sour,
Just trust me, I have get them and have a taste"
"They are not delicious."
The fox told the animals to take away form the grapes,
but the monkey didn't believed that,
he jumped,
getting the grapes easily,
he ate "the sour grapes"
He said, "it is extremely delicious"
The fox told a lie.
After the fox came back to the forest, he told other rabbits, monkeys, and other animals,
"Don't get the grapes, they are sour,
Just trust me, I have get them and have a taste"
"They are not delicious."
The fox told the animals to take away form the grapes,
but the monkey didn't believed that,
he jumped,
getting the grapes easily,
he ate "the sour grapes"
He said, "it is extremely delicious"
The fox told a lie.
Author notes: Fox cannot eat grapes he said that grapes are sour, which is
similar as that people who can not get something for themselves say that things
are bad. This psychological called sour grapes.
This fable had a proverb, "sour grapes." As far as
I am concerned, say that the grapes are sour grapes is actually a clever idea. People
should give up something that is impossible to obtain; if something has to get
obsessed, it will only make yourself miserable. Romance, do not think of each
other's advantages, we must find each other's shortcomings, then it is the best
to magnify each other's shortcomings. Although this is immoral, but it can make
lovelorn people heal their hurt feelings earlier. This is the sour grapes
mentality.
In my opinion, don’t be nostalgia if it is impossible to get
something. As for some people who cannot be successful after a number of
attempts. Some people tend to underestimate the success deliberately to find
psychological comfort. But I have an ambivalence, some people capacity is
small, do not accomplish anything, did not shirk the opportunity to mature. In
the story, the hunger fox picked grapes, but he failed then he said that the
grapes are sour. I think as long as you work hard, there will be harvest. As
the saying goes, "a work of a harvest." After a long time I thought
and thought and thought we should look at the issue from different angles to
observe, to understand. Depending on the situation, and do want to change,
which is probably why I appear ambivalence of it.
Bibliography resource: The Fox and the Grapes. (2012). In Aesop for children with pictures by milo winter. S.l.: Tredition Classics.
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