The Man and the Runner

Once there were two men who could only crawl. One day the first asked the second to have a race. The other man readily agreed. So the race began. At first it seemed as though the second man was winning, but toward the end the first man crawled up and crossed the finish line just before the second man. The first man was very proud of himself for winning and boasted for an hour. At this time a runner came by and, upon seeing the first man boasting to apparently no one, he challenged the first man to a race. Of course the first man agreed, thinking he would win by a mile. But of course the runner won; he ran at 10 mph while the first man only crawled at 3 mph. The runner said ,"You see? There is no point in comparing with the worse. You will always end up second place." The first man was sulky, but from that day on he remembered that lesson. Eventually he learned how to run and came first in the Olympics. The End