When You Don't Care

I’m glad that I’ve noticed the new uploaded article of Bo. Once again I’m inspired. Maybe he blesses anyone that reads his page. One of his friends shared a story which is a powerful tale that mirrors reality so well. It touched me and so you’ll be.

What Happens When You Don’t Care

One day, 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 this 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 – 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.  It was a venomous snake whose tail was caught in the trap. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. When she returned home she still had 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: Chicken! 

But his wife’s sickness continued.  Friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.  To feed them, the farmer butchered (who else?) the pig.

But, alas, the farmer’s wife did not get well… She died.

        So many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them for the funeral luncheon.

And 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 you 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.

Each of us is a vital thread in another person’s tapestry. Our lives are woven together for a reason.

Great tale isn’t it?

Hope you learned.

I've Heard it Once... It Happened

 One day, we had an activity in class. We have to draw anything that comes in our mind. I don't know what kind of joke my teacher had in mind. So I draw, like the rest. 

As what I can remember I draw an old man with a hat (usually use by farmers). While watching from behind, she said, "Wow, you can draw fast and look at that, it's nice!"

Well it made me proud. 

What I can't forget was the fact that she said this- "Someday you'll be a good artist, and by the way you draw, you can be great on doing editorial cartoon."

And what she didn't know about me - I HATE NEWSPAPERS!

That was 9 years before... Nine years... wew... (I have a good memory huh!)

Let me bring you now at the present.

I am now working as a writer, although I graduated to be a teacher. (I'll teach in the near future). I'm now serving at the local government and part of my job as a member of the Publishing Unit is to draw editorial cartoon. (One sample is up there).

Wow, I never thought that my teacher's words are so powerful that it already happened! Great! I hope she utter that I'll be a millionaire someday.. Ha ha ha.

Words are powerful, so be careful on what you will say...