Athletes Envy

There was once a young athlete who competed wholeheartedly in the public games and lost. The people of the town erected a great statue to honor the winner. Rilled with envy, the despondent loser decided he would destroy the statue. Every night, after it was dark, he would chisel at the base of the statue to weaken its foundation. Finally, the disgruntled young athlete succeeded and the sculpture toppled; but it fell on him and he died, a victim of his own envy. Envy is torture. It gnaws away at you, grates on your mind, and corrodes your self-esteem. Just like the young athlete, we, too, can become despondent.