Hello
all,
There was a leopard
in the jungle; and a very nocturnal leopard he was too. He could hardly sleep at
night and, lying on a branch of his magnificent tree, he spent his time watching
what was happening in the forest at night. This is how he came to learn that
there was a thief in that forest. He would watch the thief go out every night
with empty hands and return loaded up with his stolen loot. Sometimes the thief
had nabbed the senior monkey’s bananas, other times he had filched the lion’s
wig, or pinched the zebra’s stripes. One night he even snuck home with the big
elephant’s false tusk, which the elephant had been secretly wearing for quite
some time.
However, as the
leopard was a very quiet sort of cat, who lived at the margin of everything, he
didn’t want to say anything to anyone. He didn’t see it as his business, and, if
truth were told, he rather enjoyed discovering these little secrets.
And so, thanks to
the stealthy thief, quite a stir was being created in the world of the animals:
the elephant felt ridiculous without his false tusk, and the zebra now looked
like a white donkey, not to mention the lion who, now as bald as a lioness had
lost all respect. Most of the other animals were in some similar position too.
They were furious, confused or ridiculous, but the leopard lay quietly in his
tree, each night enjoying the thief’s escapades.
However, one night
the thief went on vacation, and after having waited a long while for him to
appear, the leopard grew tired and decided to sleep for a while. When he woke up
he found himself in a place very different from his usual tree, he was floating
on the water of a small lake inside a cave, and around him he could see all
those objects which, night after night, he had seen being stolen… the thief had
cut down his tree and stolen his entire home along with the leopard himself!
Well this was the last straw, so the leopard, taking advantage of the thief not
being there, ran out and went straight to see the other animals to tell them
where the thief had hidden all their things...
They all praised the
leopard for having discovered the thief and his hideout, and allowing them to
recover their possessions. In the end, the animal who lost most from all this
was the leopard, who couldn’t replant his magnificent tree and had to make do
with a much inferior tree located in a very boring site... and he regretted
having not been concerned at the problems of the other animals, now seeing that
in the long run those very problems had become his own.
Indifference to the
problems of others can allow those problems to grow until they end up being
problems to ourselves.
Ignoring things
won’t make them go away. It only makes it harder to face then when they finally
come around. Escalate your concerns and drive them into action and resolve it in
a right way.
The people who make
a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the
concern.
Will
be continued…….
Have
a good day.
Cheers//
