One autumn day, a family of ants was busy working in the warm sunshine. The ants were drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer. Suddenly, a starving grasshopper came up. With his fiddle under his arm, the grasshopper very humbly said, “Can I have a bite to eat?”
The ants asked him, “Why haven’t you stored any food for the winter?”
“I was too busy making music during summer that I didn’t have time to store any food,” the grasshopper replied.
The ants simply shrugged their shoulders and said, “Now that you have made music, you should dance on it as well.” The ants then turned their backs on the grasshopper and returned back to their work.
Moral of the Story
There’s a time for work and a time for play. One must spend their time productively, as we can always find some extra time to pursue our hobbies. Time is precious, and we must make the most of it by doing positive things.
