03.15.03
Never give up, never surrender
Last night I walked past a pet shop on Woodstock Avenue. There was an aquarium cage full of rats displayed on the window. One of the rats was furiously digging at a corner of the cage trying to build a tunnel out of its entrapment. I stopped and watched the animal for a while. The effort was futile, but it attacked the corner floor and walls with relentless determination. The whole time I was there it did nothing but dig and dig. I am left wondering how long it had been at it, and how much longer it would try. Minutes? Hours? Days? Did it?s limited intellectual capacity prevent it from realizing it was not making any progress? Did it realize it and decide to keep digging anyway?