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One afternoon, a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging over a lofty branch.

Just the thing to quench my thirst, he thought.

Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes.

Again, the fox took a few paces back and then tried to reach them but still failed.

Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said,

they're probably sour anyway and proceeded to walk away.

The moral of the story, it is easy to despise the things that you can't have.

In our society, there are a lot of people just like the fox in this fable.

They strive and fail.

Often, they give up too quickly without having really tried.

When these people fail, like the fox, they come up with an excuse, a reason why it wasn't worth

the effort anyway. And when they see other strive and achieve, they become bitter and hateful.

What really cracks me up are those people who

never even try and despise the things they can't have and claim that if they did try,

they could have gotten those grapes and that promotion and that job or accumulated that wealth.

It is a self-defense mechanism, a way to justify themselves,

a way to soothe their own inadequacies and failings. Socrates wrote,

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. What they cannot admit is that they

are envious. Envy turns to hatred and

assaults against others. It causes wars and other conflicts. The news channels, our political

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