When she started feeling that big, the gait and the manner of the fox also changed accordingly. But how will the fox chance across a camel in the forest, and even if she did, how would she be able to make mincemeat of the animal for her breakfast? But the fox was unmindful of these matters and continued its futile search. While searching, the fox did come across many small creatures and normally they would have sufficed her for breakfast. But since she was feeling so big and great that day, she ignored these small ones as not worth her attention. She felt that she was entitled to a huge breakfast, as that of an elephant.
She however found nothing of that size whatever and in the meantime the sun rose up in the sky, and the day became terribly hot. The fox was tired, and by that time the sun was in the mid sky. The fox was desperately hungry. But at that very moment, when she looked around, she saw that her shadow had become small and hid beneath her.
The fox then exclaimed: "My God. Hunger seems to have made me look so small in my own eyes. This morning when I woke up l was so huge, and now see what hunger has done to me."
Some people think no end of themselves; they imagine that they are such big shots, that they deserve the best in the world. Even when they are in dire straits they continue to believe in their projected images. It is only when they receive hard knocks in life that they are cut to size.
The downfall of man begins when he thinks of his status rather than his function in any walk of life.
The very Gods were suitably punished when they asserted their status, neglecting
their function.