The second reading from Jacobs' Aesop's Fables was much like the first. It consisted of many short stories that all had a moral. Two of them stood out to me.
The poor bat in The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts didn’t know to which group he belonged. He flies like a bird but is a beast in anatomy. I chose this fable to make fun of myself a little. Up until three years ago, I thought bats were birds. I also thought dolphins were fish. The struggle the bat faced also reminds me of myself. I registered to vote several years ago because of my grandfather’s insistence. He is a republican. My best friend at the time was a democrat. I registered independent. They asked me how I voted in the primary. I told them I didn’t because I couldn’t. Neither were too happy with me. The bat nor I can win in our predicaments.
The The Two Pots made me angry. The moral at the end of this fable is: The strong and the weak cannot keep company. This used to be acceptable but does not lend at all now to the diversity that should be reached. I have heard to not be “unequally yoked” from growing up in a southern baptist church and even to not study with kids who don’t understand the material as much as I do. These are the worst ideas in my opinion. My closest, most dear friends are of different religions than me, and the best studying I have done was with people who were strong in different subjects than me. I think that the brass pot and the earthenware pot should be good friends. Why would they ever be left out on a riverbank anyway?! That’s just nonsense.
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