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 repeated the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house! The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.”
The mouse went to the cow and again, repeated the warning. 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 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, she was rushed to the hospital, but 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. 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.I hope this story has given you something to think about concerning the proposed bio-diesel plant on Snow Creek Road.
Linda Waugh
Statesville
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2 comments:
I love this story. I feel that many people just simply don't care because they don't live close enough to be affected. Thank you for bring up this point in such a manner. Wether you agree or disagree, you are going to want someone to help you out someday so you lend the hand now. I am against putting the Biodiesel plant at that location and I'm sure that many other people would agree, but simply won't because it doesn't affect them. We didn't think it would happen to our neighborhood, but it did. IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOURS TOO, and you would want our support.
This story illustrates a point very well. How many of us are guilty of thinking"oh well, I'm glad it's not me"? Who knows, it could be someday.
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