Tuesday, April 8, 2008 ♥
A story to share: the mousetrap[ source:
http://www.poofcat.com/mousetrap.html ]
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 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 --
like 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 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.
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.
But 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.
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.The last paragraph struck me. We have always or rather as human nature, at times we take each other for granted. When we run into problems, we always try to solve it by getting out of the problems. It does not work every time and it might even hurt people in the process. Class 3D had come together this far, going through the many hardships we have endured.
When anyone of us is facing a problem, not just students but also many other teachers especially our form and co form teacher, we should help each other. Even though we cannot do anything much but still we have the moral support there for each other. With that, it is a motivation to keep us going.
If you find a student or even a teacher having troubles, just go up to them and show your concern, give them the assurances. It is what they need most from people around them when they are in their dark points of life.
When they face problems, it is not easy for them to handle it alone. But they still have to do it. Instead of just leaving them alone,why don't we show the 3 Diligent-ians spirit, united as one showing each and everyone our care and concern!
We are all in this together for 2 years, in the last phase of our journey in secondary school. Make it a happy and memorable one!
So start by showing your appreciation for one another including our teachers through notes, slips of paper telling them how much they are appreciated and once again give your assurance. (:
Jacelyn
