Forgetting the moral of the story

Let's practice what we preach.
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As a child, some of my favorite stories were the ageless Aesop’s fables.  My older daughter now also enjoys the simple, entertaining stories, and she also learns the ever-important “life lesson” at the end of each fable, more popularly termed “the moral of the story.”

That got me thinking -- Have we forgotten the “moral of the story” as adults?  Would our personal and professional lives not be for the better if we would remember and apply the morals we were taught as children?

Let’s strive to emulate the morals we learned as children.  Let’s work to be seen as a shining example of what we expect in others.  Let us expect from ourselves the same we expect of our children.

I want to share with you one of Aesop’s fables titled, “The Crab and Its Mother:”

“A crab said to her son, ‘Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?  It is far more becoming to go straight forward.’  The young Crab replied:  ‘Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.’  The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.  The moral of the story: Example is more powerful than precept.”

In other words – Let’s practice what we preach.

Best wishes,

-Victor