Helmi Hammami

What is agassing about the attitude you may face when dealing with others is what I call the attaitude of Plz help me !
Ok, helping others is a great virtue that not anyboday can do. Howver, help seekers should not go beyong the limits. Help is worth for people who really deserve it.
Imagine somebody who spends the whole day hanging around, having fun. At the end of the day, he discovers (I intend it) that he is not achieving his goals. The easy way and the short cut is to ask for help, if not for the favours of somebody else.
Doesn't this remind a story ! The story of an insect WHO spent the whole summer working hard as a matter of shelter against the dark days ! and another insect WHICH spent the whole summer playing his musical instrument ! You know the end as decribed by Jean de La Fontaine centuries ago !
Ooops .
have to go.

The Grasshopper and the Ant

 The Grasshopper having sung
All the summer long,
Found herself lacking food
When the North Wind began its song.
Not a single little piece
Of fly or grub did she have to eat.

 She went complaining of hunger
To the Ant's home, her neighbour,
Begging there for a loan
Of some grain to keep herself alive
Til the next season did arrive,
"I shall pay you," she said
"Before next August, on my word as an animal.
I'll pay both interest and pricipal."

 The Ant was not so inclined:
this not being one of her faults.
"What did you do all summer?
Said she to the grasshopper.

 "Night and day I sang,
I hope that does not displease you."

 "You sang? I will not look askance.
But now my neighbour it's time to dance."

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 La Cigale et la Fourmi

 La Cigale, ayant chanté
Tout l'été,
Se trouva fort dépourvue
Quand la bise fut venue :
Pas un seul petit morceau
De mouche ou de vermisseau.
Elle alla crier famine
Chez la Fourmi sa voisine,
La priant de lui prêter
Quelque grain pour subsister
Jusqu'à la saison nouvelle.
"Je vous paierai, lui dit-elle,
Avant l'Oût, foi d'animal,
Intérêt et principal. "
La Fourmi n'est pas prêteuse :
C'est là son moindre défaut.
Que faisiez-vous au temps chaud ?
Dit-elle à cette emprunteuse.
- Nuit et jour à tout venant
Je chantais, ne vous déplaise.
- Vous chantiez ? j'en suis fort aise.
Eh bien! dansez maintenant.