Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses

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This phrase reminds of the legendary tale of the tortoise and the hare. Mr. Hare being the ‘IT Guy’ that he believed to be, always bragged about how he had the fastest speed amongst anyone in the animal kingdom. Day in and day out it was the same ‘I’m so cool, I can beat everyone’s behind in racing story, well that was up until the Mr. Tortoise challenged him to a race. Naturally Mr. Hare laughed in Mr. Tortoise’s face replying ‘YOU, the slowest animal in the kingdom challenging ‘ME’ the fastest of them ALL. A fool you are Mr. Tortoise!’ 

Mr. Tortoise shut his mouth and didn’t say a word, moments after a long laugh Mr. Hare arrogantly replied: “BRING IT ON”.

On the day of the challenge all the animals of the kingdom gathered to watch the much awaited race. The countdown started ONE, TWO THREE!!! And off they went. It comes as no surprise that Mr. Hare was beating Mr. Tortoise’s slow self with some insults here and there, yet that didn’t discourage Mr. Tortoise one bit he kept going at it.

Mr. Hare saw that he had out run Mr. Tortoise so much, that there was no sign of him whatsoever. He then decided to play in the meadow which was later followed by a ‘long nap’.

Mr. Tortoise kept going and going till he finally reached the ‘FINISH’ line. The cheering of the crowd woke Mr. Hare up, he ran like he had never run before, but it was too late. In the end Mr. Tortoise had “KICKED HIS A%$”.

 The moral of the story: Arrogance and trust in our strengths can lead us straight to our greatest weaknesses.