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Food For Thought. by Nobody: 9:08pm On Oct 16, 2019 |
Once upon a time, in the animal kingdom,
there was hunger in the land. The Lion was
killing other animals for food, making the
other animals unhappy with the Lion but afraid
to confront the Lion for fear of their own
lives.
Eventually they got together and devised a
means to put the Lion in a cage. Their plan
was successful and the Lion stayed in the cage
for weeks without food or drink.
One day, a certain young boy was passing by
the cage. The Lion, seeing the boy, pleaded
with him to come to its rescue. At first, the
boy refused but after much persuasion, he
became compassionate and agreed to free it on
one condition: that the Lion will not kill him
upon its release, without hesitating, the lion
agreed and the boy opened the cage.
As soon as the Lion came out, it thanked the
boy but pleaded with him further to complete
the good work he had started. How? The boy
should present himself as food for the hungry
lion! Reminding the lion of their agreement,
the boy retorted, "Why do you want to repay a
good thing with a bad thing?"
The Lion replied, saying: "In the present world,
bad things are used to repay good things. Good
deeds are repaid with evil".
After a very long debate, both of them, boy
and lion, decided to ask any three animals to
confirm whether good is used to repay evil or
vice versa (good for good/evil for evil). If all
the animals say that bad things were used to
repay good things, the Lion would devour the
boy but if otherwise, the boy would be free.
The first animal they met was Goat who said,
"It is true that bad things are used to repay
good things. I am a living example. My faeces
is used as manure for farming but when the
crops are harvested, I am NEVER allowed to
taste what my faeces produced. Human beings
always pursue and prevent me from tasting
any part of the product from my dung"
Then, the Lion turned to the boy and said,
"1:0."
So, they went to the dog and the dog said,
"Bad things are used to repay good things.
Everybody knows that I go into the bush for
hunting. I assist faithfully to kill an animal and
when it is time for that same animal to be
eaten, all I get as reward are bones. Besides, at
night while others sleep I stay awake keeping
watch and even used oftentimes as a sacrificial
lamb for the thief's bullet."
Again, the Lion turned to the boy and said, 2:0
"One more chance."
The third and last animal they met was the
tortoise. In answering the question, Tortoise
said: "Before I give you my response, I need to
know how this argument started and, also, we
have to go to where it started."
So the trio went to where the argument began
and the boy narrated the whole story and
scenario . Then Tortoise asked the boy:
"Where was the Lion the first time you met
him?"
"In the cage," the boy responded"
"Go back into the cage," Tortoise told the
Lion. So Lion entered the cage.
When the Lion went back into the cage,
Tortoise asked the boy:
"Was the cage open or locked at that time?"
He answered: "It was locked"
Then Tortoise locked the cage and said to the
lucky boy, "Let's go. There is nothing more to
say."
LESSON:
Always seek to hear a story from its start off
point before commenting or passing
judgement. The two other witnesses were not
wrong from their point of view, they are
grieving based on what has been meted out to
them but applied wrongly in the boy’s case.
*Let’s be careful of the narratives if we are
not the ones involved in a particular situation,
it is the same sun that melts ice/wax that
hardens clay.* for more WhatsApp +2349074638862 |
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