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THE RAT TRAP

CATEGORY: FASHION

rat trap/ october 2015

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Atelier Laure Paschoud jacket_Topshop hat

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I am wearing Atelier Laure Paschoud jacket, Esprit jeans, Topshop hat and Chloé Phantom bag.

Photos by Alexander Ramp


Happy Friday, dear friends. I hope you are all well and healthy. It is been already a week that I am at home sick. I am surprised how long it takes to get better. When I am sick, I get  moody and frustrated because I want to get well fast. To take my mind of feeling unwell, I read inspirational stories. One of the stories that I liked a lot reminded me of certain situations that I keep facing at work when people think only of themselves. Today, I would like to share this story with you.  I hope that if you are faced with a problem that you believe does not concern you, you will think twice.

The Rat Trap

A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard the rat proclaimed the warning; “There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Excuse me, Mr. Rat, 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 rat turned to the pig and told him, “There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!” “I am so very sorry Mr. Rat,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers.”

The rat turned to the cow. She said, “Like wow, Mr. Rat. A rat trap. I am in grave danger. Duh?”
So the rat returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s rat trap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a rat trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that 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. She returned home with a fever. Now 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 that 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, and so many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when there is a rat trap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk. (Source)