The pace of the tortoise

A turtle crawled alone in the grass, crossed the ditch, and stepped on fallen leaves and grass. It climbs very slowly, although it is faster than smaller animals such as snails, but it is still far behind by most animals. In the race between the tortoise and the hare, it is absolutely impossible for the tortoise to win if the hare is not lazy. Born as a turtle, there is no doubt that you will be defeated in various speed competitions. However, the tortoise went on, taking firm steps step by step.

Since it is a doomed game, why doesn't the tortoise back down? Since we can't catch up with the rabbit, why does the tortoise keep climbing?

Perhaps, the tortoise didn't see the rabbit or other animals passing by it. Climbing forward is the pleasure of the tortoise itself. For example, in the play "We Are Made by Miracles", rabbits compete with turtles in order to prove that they are faster than turtles. The tortoise is not as good as the rabbit, so why compete? Because the tortoise keeps climbing just because it cares about the scenery along the way. Rabbits like to hit turtles, but turtles like not to hit rabbits, but the process of climbing forward. As long as you climb forward, the scenery in front of you will keep changing; If you keep climbing, you may be able to climb faster and faster. With this in mind, the tortoise continued to crawl forward.

Perhaps, the tortoise didn't take winning or losing the crawling speed seriously at all. As a tortoise, even if it doesn't climb as fast as a rabbit, so what? If you swim in the competition, the tortoise has an advantage over the rabbit (the lettering impression is that the rabbit can't swim, but there is actually a video record of the rabbit swimming, so I dare not assert that the tortoise must swim better than the rabbit). Therefore, even if the tortoise loses to the rabbit in the running race, the tortoise will not feel any frustration. After all, "running" is not the area that turtles are good at. Different animals have their own professional fields. What's the point of comparing your short board with the long board of other animals?

Perhaps, the tortoise has long been indifferent to winning or losing the game. Its life is too long, and it has experienced too many years. For a long time, there may be countless rabbits coming to compete with it. Most of them won, and some lost because of laziness, but this is only a very small number. The tortoise satisfied the vanity and competitiveness of the rabbits with slow speed. The winning rabbit left happily, and the tortoise continued to climb and experience its time. Over time, the rabbits who come to participate in the competition are generation after generation, and the turtles compete with them again and again-this kind of competition is just a pastime for it, and winning or losing doesn't matter. After all, it has surpassed the ancestors of rabbits in age.

What is the reason? We don't know. We only know that the tortoise walks very slowly. No matter how many rabbits catch up with it, it crawls forward firmly and has no inferiority.

We may all be "turtles" who can never surpass "rabbits".

Like the tortoise, we can move forward firmly with the "tortoise's pace".