This story is a great metaphor and speaks a lot about the current mental attitude that people have. We see needy people all around us and yet we make no effort to help them out. Illiteracy and unemployment are two major forms of cancer which is affecting our society today. Education helps people think reason and make more matured decisions while employment helps people earn their own livelihood. In the years to come when more and more children are left uneducated on the streets, they will become easy targets for corrupt and evil elements in the society who will teach them wrong doctrines and brainwash them. Without a daily source of income, they will be forced to take up cheating and violence because by then, it becomes a matter of survival for them. Here’s a story on this.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well; in fact, she died. So many people came for her funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
Moral of this story: - When one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
This story is a great metaphor and speaks a lot about the current mental attitude that people have. We see needy people all around us and yet we make no effort to help them out. Illiteracy and unemployment are two major forms of cancer which is affecting our society today. Education helps people think reason and make more matured decisions while employment helps people earn their own livelihood. In the years to come when more and more children are left uneducated on the streets, they will become easy targets for corrupt and evil elements in the society who will teach them wrong doctrines and brainwash them. Without a daily source of income, they will be forced to take up cheating and violence because by then, it becomes a matter of survival for them.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage each other, to build each other, to enhance each other’s lives and help everyone live with dignity. That’s the whole reason why we are called Social beings.
