The rat race

This is a parable of two rats. The first rat was good at the race. Every day the door opened and he ran the maze as fast as he could and enjoyed his reward at the end of the maze. The second rat was also good at the race but quickly tired of it. He knew he was capable of much more than a silly maze. One day he climbed the wall of the maze and danced and flipped and cartwheeled on the top of the maze wall. He was captured by the researchers and never seen again.