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A difficult competition
In a big and long forest located on a desolated place on Earth, there were two foxes that were very opposite from each other. One of them was a quiet animal who liked to watch the complexity of nature and he was always wondering and studding his environment. He always watched the nature from the distance. Meanwhile the other fox was an adventurer who was always exploring the forest without any preoccupation. The quite fox learned about the interesting things of the world mostly from his books. He was also very careful with anything. The other fox didn’t know pretty much anything about his world but he liked to explore the forest. One day, a wise old turtle dare the two foxes to cross a long river that were in the forest. The reward would be food enough for a week to the one who cross the river first. That forest was a hard place to live, the food was scarce and the weather was very extreme. So, the foxes accepted the challenge because they were very hungry. Early the next day they started the competition. The turtle as a judge marked the start of the competition. As soon as the competition started, the adventurer fox jumped into the river and stated to swim as fast as he could. The other fox, worried, analyzed the situation and then he began to build something. A long time ago when the adventurer fox was in the middle of the river, the other fox had finished to make a rustic boat but he was a little afraid to ride it. With a lot of fear he climbed the boat and tried to control it with a lot of difficult. Meanwhile the other fox was very exhausted and he started to slow down. A couple of hours later, the river started to shake and both foxes were almost in same place of the river. The fox swimming was very exhausted and he could not keep swimming and with the movement of the river he drowned. The fox in the boat could not control the boat and it started to break because he didn’t built it very well, and he was pushed out of the boat and he also drowned in the river. The turtle watched from afar the situation but he was not surprised at all. He just walked away to his home.
Moral of the fable: You need the theory and the practice to completely succeed in anything you want.
Servando García Guajardo
