Talk:Marrow Amin/@comment-68.10.80.217-20191128202003/@comment-4010415-20191128220642

I don't think the story is supposed to be about vanity, either. It seems to be about taking for granted what you have, as well as what you can lose if you give in to the envy for what you perceive others to have.

The dog had a bone, it saw its reflection in a pond, it thought the reflection was another dog with a better bone, so it dropped its bone in the pond while attempting to "steal" the reflection's bone. Because it gave in to envy and tried to steal from an imaginary dog, it ended up with nothing.