An Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, "The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.
Aesop
Evil grasshoppers! They should have told the young donkey that later, when getting old, he wouldn´t hear the grasshoppers´ voices any more and that acoustic hearing aparatusses for donkeys were not available.
ReplyDeleteThe ass acted greedy and disrespectful by aspiring to something that was not rightfully his. Of course, he dug himself into a hole with his clumsy attempts.
ReplyDeleteTo this day, people with such despicable ambitions are called assholes.