A mother and baby camel were lying under a tree. The baby camel asked its mother, “Why do we have humps?”
The mother camel took a moment to consider this and said, “We are desert animals so we have the humps to store fat so we can survive with very little food.”
The baby camel thought for a moment and then said, “Okay…why are our legs long and our feet rounded?
The mother camel replied, “They are meant for walking in the desert.”
The baby paused, and then asked, “Why are our eyelashes long? Sometimes they get in my way…”
The mama camel responded, “Those long, thick eyelashes protect your eyes from the desert sand when it blows in the wind.”
The baby thought and thought. Then he said, “I see. So the hump stores fat when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protect our eyes from the desert…so how come we’re in a zoo?”
Moral of the story: Skills and abilities are only useful if you’re in the right place at the right time. Otherwise, they go to waste
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