A lesson For Us All
A mouse, looking through a hole in the wall, sees the farmer and his wife open a package. He was terrified to see that it was a mousetrap. He ran to the patio to warn everyone.
“There is a mousetrap at home!”.
The chicken that was cackling and digging says: “Excuse me, Mr. Mouse, I understand that it is a big problem for you, but it does not hurt me at all.”
So, the rodent went to the lamb and he says the same thing: “Excuse me Mr. Mouse, but I don’t think I can do more than ask for you in my prayers.”
The mouse went to the cow and she said: “But am I in danger? I think not!” said the cow.
The mouse returned to the house, worried and dejected to face the farmer’s mousetrap.
That night a great noise was heard like that of the mousetrap catching its victim, the woman ran to see what she had caught.
In the dark she did not see that the mousetrap caught the tail of a poisonous snake.
The speedy snake bit the woman, the farmer immediately took her to the hospital, she came back with a high fever.
The farmer to comfort her prepared a nutritious soup, grabbed the knife and went to find the main ingredient: the chicken.
Since the woman did not get better, friends and neighbors went to visit them. The farmer killed the lamb to feed them.
The woman did not get better and died.
And in the end, the husband sold the cow to the slaughterhouse to cover the funeral expenses.
The next time someone tells you about their problem and you think that it doesn’t affect you because it’s not yours and you don’t pay attention to it, think twice, “He who doesn’t live to serve, doesn’t serve to live.”
The world is not going badly because of the wickedness of the bad, but because of the apathy of the good.
So when someone needs you for their problems, give them your hand or give them a word of encouragement.
May you never lack empathy!
And if it’s dark, always turn on the light to see what’s in the mouse trap.
Current Commentary
“Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” – Voltaire
A lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.
911 was not an inside job.
You can chose your gender.
You don’t need an uterus to have a period.
The Covid jab is safe and effective.
The 240,000 excess deaths did not come from the jab.
Died suddenly is not caused by the Covid jab.
Heart attacks are caused by climate change (and eggs, apparently).
You can trust your government.
Big pharma are interested in your health and welfare.
CO2 causes global warming.
The climate is changing due to anthropomorphic rising temperatures.
It is far more important to worry about CO2 levels than ocean plastic and chemical pollution, soil degradation and pollution and air pollution.
The US did not violate their agreement with Russia to not expand NATO.
The US did not engineer to overthrow a democratically elected Ukraine government in 2014.
The US and EU partners never signed the Minsk agreement with no intent to honour it but to buy time to arm Ukraine.
The US and EU are not fighting a proxy war with Russia.
The US and EU are not progressively ramping up their arms supplies to further provoke Russia.
Life Hacks 2023
Stay Strong
Violence On The Language
“A man who deliberately inflicts violence on the language will almost certainly inflict violence on human beings if he acquires the power. Those who treasure the meaning of words will treasure truth, and those who bend words to their purposes are very likely in pursuit of anti-social ones.” – historian Paul Johnson
Your Future Self
I once heard an interesting dissertation on whether the present causes the future or the future causes the present.
“That’s ridiculous!” I hear some say.
Is it? I mean, we all know that if you hit your thumb with a hammer you will get a sore thumb. The present act of missing the nail and striking the thumb will cause future pain in the thumb.
But what about the desire to eat something in the future necessitating you work today to earn money to buy food so you can eat tomorrow. Did not the desire to be eating tomorrow govern what you did with your time today? Does that not make tomorrow cause over today?
I raise this philosophical point to ask you whether or not you have consulted your 2033 future self lately about the sort of shape you would like to be in health and fitness wise in ten years?
Or maybe I should ease into that question by asking you what are you grateful for today that you did in the past?
Maybe it is worth some time to make a few notes on where you would like to be in 10 or 20 years time with regards your health and fitness. What you would like to be capable of doing with your body.
I sometimes say to youngsters, “Ask your parents, aunts and uncles the degenerative diseases from which they suffer and, if they had their time over again, what lifestyle changes they would make to prevent those conditions from manifesting.”
Maybe ask your future self if they would like to dodge those conditions. Because it’s a lot easier to prevent a problem than it is to fix one. Especially health problems. They are far easier to prevent than cure.
There’s more than one old saying that recognises this.
A stitch in time saves nine.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I encourage you not to put off doing this exercise as life all too easily gets in the way. Right now open however you allocate times and tasks for yourself and make a note to consult your future self.
When you have done it, if I can be of any assistance in helping you attain your dietary goals, call or write me.
I can guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt your future self will be ever so grateful you did!
Why Care?
Own The Day
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Anyway hope you and yours are happy healthy and well.
Sharon