This is how contention is

Aesop’s fables

Retold by Risitha Deelaka WICKMAL

When Heracles (mythical hero of the Greeks,considered the strongest man on earth) was walking along a lane, he saw something like a pear and trampled and crushed it with his club while walking. To his amazement, that small pear-like thing became twice its size. Heracles again stamped on it and hit it with his club much harder than earlier.

But again it puffed many times bigger than the original size. The harder he crushed it, the bigger it became in size. Finally that small pear puffed upto the extent that it blocked the lane. Heracles was astounded and looked for any assistance to remove the jumbo pear which blocked the lane.

Then Athena (Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus, she was the goddess who presided over cultural life and handicrafts. She was also the goddess of wisdom) appeared beside Heracles and addressed him.

“Stop!”

“Do you know the meaning of this, Heracles?

“No”

Said Heracles in reply.

“This depicts the nature of hostility and conflict. The more you trouble them, the more they become bigger and obstruct you. As long as you leave them undisturbed, they will remain as they are without harming you. But if you disturb them, they would grow unstoppably as this”.

Morale of the story

This shows that the hostility and conflict become unmitigatedly huge when they are stricken. As long as you leave those not- so- healthy things undisturbed, they will keep you undisturbed in return.