BITE ONLY WHAT YOU CAN CHEW

A magazine carried the following story:

A man, while walking through the bank of a lake saw a ball floating in an unusual way. He decided to investigate...

He found out that the ball was a child's basketball, and the reason it was floating in an unusual way is it was stuck in the mouth of a flathead catfish!

The fish had obviously tried to swallow the ball, but it got stuck. When it tried to dive beneath the surface, the buoyancy of the basketball would bring it back up again. It had literally bitten off more than it could it chew. 

The man captured the exhausted fish, deflated the ball with a knife, and removed it from the fish's mouth. Then he released the catfish back into the lake. 

Is this not at illustration of modern humans who try to chew more than they can and end up in this predicament? Is not the consumer culture forcing us to do it? 

We end up biting off more than we can chew, and complicate our own lives.