hope

i read about an experiment that attempted to measure the power of attitude in rats.
The researchers wanted to see how the rats's attitudes affected their will to die.
They put one rat in a large tub of water with high sides so it could not get out.
Then they put the tub in a dark room.
They timed how long the rat would keep swimming before it gave up.
The rat lasted a little over three minutes.


Then the reseachers put another rat in the same tub , but this time they allowed a bright ray of light to shine into the room.
The rat swam more than thirty-six hours , seven hundred times longer than the rat no light.


why was that ?
The rat with no light had no hope.
When he looked ahead he saw only darkness .
There wasn't any reason to keep swimming.