To anyone familiar with Aesop’s fables, this short story will be familiar. I wanted to take a break from the regular, and just discuss how important the moral of this story is.

A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. “Ah, Cousin,” said the Dog. “I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?”

Better to starve free than be a fat slave.



We’re seeing a change in the way people not only look at the world, but interact with it.

People are finding more of a sense of community, even with people they’ve never met, and who may live thousands of miles away.

The key difference is that these communities don’t thrive on the competition that typical corporations would. They thrive on the generosity of others. Anyone familiar with aspects of P2P, or social media knows this very well.

Through this, we have the ability to express ourselves, and help others, without expecting anything in return, except the satisfaction of knowing a job was well done.

Now, I digress, but the point I’m trying to make is, these communities didn’t start themselves. These communities were built by people, people with an idea.

They also weren’t put there by corporations (although many of the larger ones have since been acquired, but the practice still holds true), they were put there by people like you or me, people like your friends, your neighbors, your family.

Going into work every day to make someone else a pretty penny can be taxing on this freedom, on one’s self-image.

With a great idea and some hard work, one can create their own community, their own life, their own vision, and succeed with it.

Now while the stories ends with the wolf choosing to starve, it’s more a matter of his choice for freedom, his choice to be able to choose, and this is the most important point.

Getting stuck in a dead end job may be for some, but if you have an idea, or a dream, why not follow it?

The world is always changing, and it’s not going to wait for you, you have to make these changes happen for yourself.

You also have to be free to do it, that collar and chain will always wear you away, but the freedom will open up the world, and all it has to offer.

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It’s so much easier to just blame someone else, and even easier to think, “Someone else will do it”.

Why do we do these things? Why don’t we just take responsibility into our own hands, and have something to show for it?

Much of this can come down to trying to avoid failure: one will try to avoid responsibility to avoid the chance of an unfavourable outcome.

Yet, so much is lost, and so many opportunities shrugged off.

This is something that should be avoided in itself.

Take responsibility, and don’t be afraid to fail.

If failure, or the feeling of failure, comes from trying, it’s a lesson that’s been learned, and can help turn future responsibilities and endeavors into successes.

Another aspect of taking responsibility can be to aide in someone else’s responsibilities.

For example: if someone has a request on the internet, say via Aardvark, that you know can assist with, DO SO.

Just because someone else MAY do it, doesn’t mean that they will. You avoiding that responsibility to assist someone else may just end with that person being unassisted, because guaranteed, there’s several other people out there who are avoiding responsibility as well.

Don’t be afraid to take chances, what comes from them will most likely help you in the long run, lesson and success alike.

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