A mouse looked through the crack in the wall, to see the farmer and his wife open a new package.
"What food might this contain?", the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover, that it was a mouse-trap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mouse-trap in the house! There is a mouse-trap in the house!"
The chicken clucked, scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell, that 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 mouse-trap 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 for you. Be assured, that you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a mouse-trap in the house! There is a mouse-trap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse, I AM sorry for you. But it is no skin, off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mouse-trap, all by himself.
That very night, a sound was heard throughout the farm house, like the sound of a mouse-trap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife, rushed to see what had been caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it had been a venomous snake, whose tail only the mouse-trap had caught.
That venomous snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed his wife to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows, that 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. Friends and neighbors came to sit with her, round 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.
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So, the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem, and think that it doesn't concern you, remember that 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.
SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT, AND LET THEM KNOW, HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.REMEMBER:
EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD, IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER, FOR A REASON.
One of the best things to hold onto in this world, is a friend.
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