The Rabbit Who Never Stopped

We're all familiar with the rabbit-tortoise story, yes, the one where the faster rabbit lost to the relatively slower tortoise, due to his laziness. The story that had ended with a moral of being more steady. The rabbit was told to learn from the tortoise. And so he did, the incident was remembered by generations of rabbits, it always reminded them of the silly mistake their ancestor had committed and along with that it was a matter of shame for them. The whole species was being seen as lazy lads now, and it disappointed a young rabbit a lot. He knew that he wasn't like that one old folk who had lost, he was different. He believed that rabbits had improved in terms of speed as well as steadiness, and no rabbit was foolish enough to commit the same mistake again. But it wasn't just about his faith, he needed to prove himself to others too. With all these thoughts in his mind, he left his bushes early in the morning, heading straight to the outskirts of the forest, the place where tortoises resided. On reaching there he challenged the first tortoise he saw for a race.

Tortoise refused, "I've got better business to do",
and the rabbit challenged, "Is that the fear of losing?"
"Joy of winning & sorrow of losing don't affect me. "
"Then what is that is keeping you from accepting my challenge."
"I don't accept challenges, I, however can accompany you in a run. "
"See it as whatever you want to."

Next day, both started from the same point where that old race had begun, deciding to follow the same legendary path. Rabbit was determined, he had decided not to even think anything else before winning, tortoise on the other hand was just calm, he started with putting his slow yet firm steps one at a time, while rabbit didn't look back and went hastily. The rabbit would soon realize that in try to maintain hurry and steadiness, he has lost his directions, he'll realize that he's been blindly running, managing his pace, not stopping for a single instance, working hard to win but with nowhere to go. But he won't stop even after all these realizations, knowing that he's going wrong but caught with a fear of being left behind, he won't turn around. Much like us, running in a void, racing with no one, getting nothing, reaching nowhere, and proving ourselves to no one. We've made ourselves live in such emptiness, yet we don't have time to stop for a moment to enjoy life.

Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur. So you move on. - Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

You keep blindly heading into same direction. But I feel that we need to reconsider if we really want to be that aimlessly running rabbit. Sometimes, in life, we should stop and make sure that we're going right, doing right and if it really should be done that way. And also stop to open our eyes to the beauty.

The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon. The shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget about his sheep. - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

And yeah, what happened to the rabbit and the tortoise? They're still running, rabbit is still in fear of losing, while tortoise is enjoying the path. If their ways ever intersect, rabbit might get to know that it was the same tortoise who had defeated his ancestor.

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