John Y’s Musings from the Middle: The Ant & The Grasshopper

I love Aesop’s Fables.

They are so wise and applicable to daily life—even several thousand years after they were written.

But I wonder sometimes if everyone interprets the morale to each story the same way I do.

For example, the fable of the ant and the grasshopper come to mind.

You remember, a grasshopper has spent the warm months singing while the ant slaved away and worked to store up food for winter.

When that season arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger and upon asks the ant for food –and is rebuked for being lazy and unprepared.

I don’t know what other people got out of that story but I assumed the obvious moral was to network well with ants.

No?