Once upon a time, a hungry fox was wandering in the woods. He came across a vine with clusters of beautiful, ripe grapes hanging from it. The fox’s mouth watered at the sight of the luscious grapes, and he couldn’t resist trying to reach them.
The grapes, however, were high up on the vine, and no matter how hard the fox tried, he couldn’t reach them. He jumped and stretched, but the grapes remained just out of his grasp. After many failed attempts, the fox sat down, panting and disappointed.
Instead of admitting defeat, the fox looked up at the grapes and said, “Those grapes are probably sour anyway. I’m sure they are not worth the effort.” With that, he turned away and walked off, pretending that he didn’t care about the grapes.
The moral of the story is that it’s easy to despise what you cannot have. The fox, unable to reach the grapes, consoled himself by convincing himself that they were undesirable. The story teaches us not to belittle or devalue something just because we cannot attain it.
