It's Not My Problem

There is this story of this mouse that lived on a farm. One day it seen the farmer come home with a packet. Thinking it was food, he tried find out what it was. However, to his great horror, it was a mouse-trap to catch him.

He panicked and ran to his best friend on the farm, the chicken. Breathlessly he told her, "Our lives are in danger! The farmer has brought a mouse-trap!" The chicken laughed and told him, "My dear mouse, I don't see how this concern me. It's your problem."

The mouse then went to the pig and told him the same thing. "I can understand your concern, my dear. But I fail to see how this mouse-trap can harm me. However, you better take care!"

Finally the little mouse went to his last friend on the farm, the ox. "Can you please help! The farmer has brought a mouse-trap and all our lives are in danger!" The ox laughed at him saying, "O come on! It's not our lives but just your life in danger. I don't see how I can help."

The dejected mouse went away and awaited his faith. IT so happened that night the mouse-trap caught something. On hearing the loud noise of the trap trapping its intended victim, the farmer's wife went to check the trap. Since it was dark the farmer's wife went about feeling her way. Unfortunately, the trap had caught a snake, which bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. However, she came down with fever.

As one of the way of treating fever is a soup with chief ingredient being chicken, the farmer prepared it for her. However, she failed to get better. Now there were a number of people who came to see the farmer's wife. In order to feed them, the farmer slaughtered the pig. Unfortunately the poor woman took bad and passed away. In order to feed the people who had come for the funeral the farmer had to butchered the cow.

In life we may feel that the problems of others may not have any percussion on us and ignore them. But somehow it will surely affect us in the end. So whenever you find a friend in problem remember the mousetrap and know that the whole barnyard is in danger.