Dear Readers,
Greetings of the day!
"Love Thy Neighbours" is a well known sentence to every body. Being a human being it is utmost need that we help each other and especially those, who in dire needs. Ignoring difficulties of others, sometime lends every body in difficulty. Let me narrate a story of a mouse, chicken, pig and cow, which all were staying together in a house of a farmer.
One day, the 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!"
Chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said to scared 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." Chicken went on its normal routine.
Helpless mouse turned to the pig and told him "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig heard, but said "I am so very sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers." It went on enjoying its feed.
Now, the poor mouse turned to the cow for help and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said "I'm sorry for you, but it's not my burden." Cow slipped to the pond and enjoyed the cold water.
Finally, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone and started making plans.
In the 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. Due to darkness, she could 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.
Neighbours advised him to treat his wife's 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 neighbours 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 poor mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness. 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. Each of us is a vital thread in another person's tapestry."
Learn the true meaning of "Love Thy Neighbours". But how many of us know who are our neighbours?
With Best Wishes,
Vinod Khurana
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