When one person does something that is wrong, the brunt is felt by everybody who even vaguely know her/him. And I am no exception.....
I came across a children's fable which beautifully describes this phenomenon
The Mouse Trap
Once a mouse lived in a mouse-hole of a farmer's house.
He 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, 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.
REMEMBER. . . . . . EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;
OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
And when one strand is pulled into a whirlpool the others cant get detached and say , hey i am not the one caught.... all of them have to drown together.
4 comments:
You cant possible have stumbled upon this fable. You tried to look for it. And there is no possible way of implying through this that our lives are woven, and that too for a reason. Its just that anyone's chances of getting affected by someone Else's cause are just as likely as his not getting affected. A post with a heavy odor of whats been happening around in campus, a sly way of telling things one in which you didn't succeed.
i guess even a simple change in life affects every1..may it be their life styles..talking,chattn..behaviours,etc
..but the magnitude of change varies...evry small change brings a change..but its not possibly so disastrous as the story goes :) ...
newaz keep writin..
@the obscure intellect: firstly, u were correct in smelling the odor but ur latter piece of speech is not convincing as i am not in a habit of flinging comments on people from behind the curtain to hide my identity.secondly, i DID stumble upon this thing by chance coz this story was in a mail i received from a fried who is not even remotely connected to whatever was happening on campus. and thirdly, to remind u that seasons contains my thoughts and point of view when i say all our lives are woven together in a tapestry.
@prateek:
i agree that the repurcussions may not be as disastrous as in the story but when u have to get people to understand the enormous consequences, u have to lay forward the worst possible case...
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