Around 1986-87, I was in Kindergarten and Vaidehi Ma’am was explaining to us kiddos one of the stories in an English text book. This one was about a fox that wanted to eat grapes and because it couldn’t reach them, it decided the grapes were sour. This was among the first instances of I failing to understand something in my life that my peers understood. I asked my parents and sisters and they tried explaining it to me with little success.
I don’t really know when the meaning sunk in, but this was probably one of those stories that have a major impact in one’s life.
Easy to despise what you don’t get. I don’t know with what intention Aesop might have written it, but this is probably the most common thing we see today - starting especially with a college someone wants to get into and then majoring-in field, visa, graduate school, assistantship, job, raise, car, girl and so on…
Ain’t it easy to discover a reason for something we tried and didn’t get, may sound a valid reason, may not sound as one. But the fact remains we did try for it, and then figured out a reason as to why we can’t be upset over not getting it. The proffesor will make you work like a dog - so it’s good you didn’t get the assistantship. May be valid. The girl I asked out had an affair with two guys before, good that we didn’t pair up. Invalid, and this is called character assassination. Those who agree with the reason might just be helping you out emotionally.
The example I’ve taken stemmed out from this link that I found in Wikipedia for The fox and the grapes entry. The illustrations are tiny, yet good. While I think, to despise something you don’t get is actually good in some cases because you won’t loose your confidence, this must not lead to character assassination or any such thing that might hamper other’s views on a specific subject. SO if you didn’t get into majoring in English literature, do not ridicule it saying that’s not a good program or there are no future opportunities. Someone else might think it to be true as they don’t know the whole story behind your statement.
And just an FYI - foxes do eat fruits, I really don’t think grapes are an exception, but I did feed pieces of apple to a fox. In more than once instance. They also eat insects (crickets), mice, and other small creatures. I wonder that the fox would have said about the crickets it couldn’t catch. Insects are nasty and gross anyway. Pah.
I would rather say that those which are not easily attainable are sweet or atleast look sweet ……
dis s wot evry1 of us hv don @ sompoint or de oter…so dat it is accepted as generalisation of human mind/ even animal mind 4 dat matter.
but yeah , v amaze oursleves by our contradictory tastes & wld agree wit wot anonymous hs commented .
ya …we get satisfied thinking wht we did not get was good for us…eppudu e level of life lo satisfy avuthamooo….evale anukuntu unna idhe nenu….durapu kondalu nunupu ani..mana dagara leni ani kavali….