The Hare and the Tortoise

The Hare and The Tortoise

Long long time ago, in a big park, a Hare was wondering around iddlingly. He then met a passerby Tortoise. Out of boredom, he then challenged the Tortoise to race.

'Alright! Why not? Let's race' Said the Tortoise.

The Hare smirked. He was very confident to win.

'Ready, get start, GOOO!!!!!'.......... Off they started to race to the end point.

The Hare sprinting as fast as he could. Very soon, the Tortoise was out of sight. After a while, he felt too boring to race alone like this. He decided to take a rest under a big tree thinking he would still have time to dash  to the end point not far from the tree and win the Tortoise. There, he fell asleep soundly, unconsciously.

The Tortoise, even though walking very slowly, he was persistent. Enjoying himself in the park, he kept moving forward bit by bit.

'Ah??!!The Hare??!!' Acclaimed the Tortoise in silent when he saw the Hare was sleeping under a tree. He turned his head and smile at the sleeping Hare.

Not long after the Tortoise walked pass, the Hare woke up suddenly in dismay, realizing he had fallen into deep sleep. He looked ahead and found out that the Tortoise was already near the final line. The Hare picked up his speed like lightning trying to catch up.  Alas, too late. The Tortoise won the race.

The End

Some people shorten this story to 'Arrogance comes before fall'. Some people said 'Persistence wins, do not give up no matter what'.

Sometimes, it is not easy to draw a line between self confident and arrogant. To those who have low self esteem, they generally regard those who are confident as arrogant. The losers will also think the winners are arrogant. How do we differentiate then?

Self confidence, may be, is a quiet but firm belief and trust on oneself. It shows in time of need and challenge without hurting others. Arrogance, on the other hand, is over confident that tends to show off and hurt others along the process.

Depending on the upbringing and the experience of growing up, a person may grown up confident but humble or arrogant. The later might not have exposed enough to know a lot of extra ordinaries out side his comfort zone to behave so. They fall easily too, most of the time.

In the period of searching our identity, there are times, we might not know what to believe, how to behave. We, may be, can choose the crowd to avoid conflict or to build ourselves through reading, watch movies or TV programs and draw the crowd of  our chosen friends. What would you say?