One day, a mouse discovered that the farmer had set up a dangerous trap for mice. Fearing for her safety, the mouse warned the chicken, the sheep, and the goats.
“The farmer’s set a trap for mice!” she said urgently. “We need to be careful.”
But the chicken clucked dismissively, “Why should we worry? It’s not our problem.”
The sheep nodded in agreement, “It doesn’t concern us.”
one of the goat, chewing her cud, said, “Just stay away from it. It’s your problem, not ours.”
The mouse felt a pang of fear but decided to keep an eye on the trap.
Days went by, and the trap did its work—it caught a snake, The snake’s bite the farmer’s wife. the farmer, desperate to help his ailing wife, made a pot of soup from the chicken. With guests coming to visit, the sheep was slaughtered to provide for them. And at the funeral, the all the goats was killed to make sure everyone had enough to eat.
As all this unfolded, the mouse watched in disbelief from a small hole in the wall. She saw how her friends were being used one by one, each sacrifice escalating as the farmer’s crisis deepened.
The mouse’s heart sank as she realized the grim outcome. She had tried to warn them, but they hadn’t listened. The danger she had feared had spread far beyond her own small world and had touched everyone.
The mouse realized that problems that seem distant or irrelevant can quickly become your own.
Moral: Don’t assume that if something doesn’t directly affect you now, it won’t eventually come back to haunt you.
