Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Aesop’s Fable, The Boys and the Frog. Aesop’s Fables is available for free download here.
The Fable
“Some mischievous Boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and,
catching sight of some Frogs swimming about in the shallow water,
they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones, and
they killed several of them. At last one of the Frogs put his head
out of the water and said, “Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is
sport to you is death to us.”
Note: When I read this fable I thought about how I could apply it to contemporary society. The thoughts streamed through my mind. I thought about people racing down the road where the speed limit is 40 miles an hour. They’re traveling at 70 miles per hour. There are consequences to everything we do. What’s a game to them but it could be a death trap for people trying to obey the law. What about people who use social media to bully others, make fun of others, and disrespect others? What’s fun to them really hurts other people. It’s good to look at what we do and reflect on it. When we do something that hurts others it’s also hurting us as well; we may not realize it but it does. I like the saying treat other people as you would like to be treated.
