*Food for thought*
Oct. 26th, 2006 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phynckeI got this story in e-mail from my friend Shmo. Now she sends me silly things but I thought this was pretty good. It is a parable of sorts. Not really religious but the lesson is clear. I liked it. *nod* So I am sharing it wit youse.
A Mouse Story
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; 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.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem
and think it doesn't concern you,
remember --
when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
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 one another.
On a side note. It seems really fitting that I got this today. I found out that a friend of mine through work is having a really hard time with drugs and alcohol and is totally fucking up at work. She has been AWOL for about 5 weeks and is really going down that slope. I have decided that I need to do something for her. So it is funny that I got this. Hmmm. Life really sends it to you.
A Mouse Story
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; 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.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem
and think it doesn't concern you,
remember --
when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
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 one another.
On a side note. It seems really fitting that I got this today. I found out that a friend of mine through work is having a really hard time with drugs and alcohol and is totally fucking up at work. She has been AWOL for about 5 weeks and is really going down that slope. I have decided that I need to do something for her. So it is funny that I got this. Hmmm. Life really sends it to you.
