Learning Lessons From Aesop's Fables

As regular listeners know, GamerDude has always enjoyed stories, whether reading them or having them read to him.  Some of the earliest stories that he remembers from his childhood were Aesop's fables.  Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller who was probably one of the earliest "people-watchers."  He watched people, saw how they acted, and crafted stories about people and their behavior from his observations.  He would use animals in his stories to portray the characteristics he observed, and each of his stories - some of them quite short - would convey a moral, or lesson, that could be learned from the behaviors. These fables were a big part of GamerDude's childhood.  He remembers his mother reading them to him, and he remembers reading them himself, and the lessons he learned from those stories helped shape the kind of person he is. GamerDud ...