Adversity Reveals Your True Character
There is a well-known fable from Aesop concerning an ant and a grasshopper:
One fine summer day, a grasshopper was hopping about, happily chirping along without a care in the world. An ant passed by, bearing a large ear of corn to its nest.
As the grasshopper continued singing and dancing, it watched the ant scurry back and forth, carrying large burdens on its back. The grasshopper couldn’t understand why the ant would toil on such a beautiful day.
The grasshopper teasingly asked the ant, “Why not come and sing with me, instead of working so hard?”
“I am storing food for the winter,” the ant replied to the grasshopper, “and think you should do the same.” Without a moment’s rest, the ant quickly rushed back to work.
The grasshopper still didn’t see the point. “Why bother? It is such a beautiful day and there is plenty of food,” the grasshopper said with a laugh and spent the remainder of the day singing and dancing.
But as it normally goes, summer soon ended and winter crept over the lands. It turned bitterly cold and frost covered the formerly green fields. With nothing to eat and nowhere to hide, the grasshopper felt the painful pangs of hunger.
Shivering, it looked sadly at the ant inside its cozy shelter, eating comfortably…
