THE HUNGRY MOUSE
Ako Philemon@akophilemon942119
22 days ago
A mouse once fell into a jar full of grain. First day it celebrated.
Food everywhere. No need to struggle.
It ate.
It slept.
It got comfortable.
But the grain kept reducing every day.
The same place that looked like paradise
slowly became a prison.
This is how life traps many people.
Too much comfort.
Too much easy living.
And before you know it,
the strength to climb out is gone.
Sometimes the biggest trap in life is the place you feel most comfortable.
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Most people often learn how to struggle when strength has departed their limbs and all their youth spent in comfort sitting still and waiting to enjoy every comfort that comes their way instead of taking ambitious steps to create that very comfort through struggles.
KEY TAKE AWAYS FROM THE STORY.
1) Comfort is a Trap: when life is too easy, you often lose the ability to build motivation and determination to challenge difficult challenges, situations that will later come your way.
2) Loss of Freedom: Relying on free and abundant resources like the grain in the story means we lose to develop our ability to survive the tough and difficult and be on our own.
3) Act Early: The best time to build the strength, courage and determination to face tough, difficult situations is when things are easy before all available resources are spent, depleted and you find yourself trapped.
4) Always Wanting Excess is Dangerous: The story above is a warning for greed and Laziness.
The mouse fed on the excess, wanted excess daily and the greed of feeding on that which was present before it made it depleted and out of strength to navigate it way out.
That which you have must not finish before you think of the next thing to do.
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