Mouse in a Jar

Story 1: Mouse and a Jar full of grains

Once a mouse accidentally fell into a jar full of grains.

Now, he had so much of food around him, that he did not have to run around in search of food. so he started to eat, sleep & live in the jar.

Sometimes, it had to struggle for the sake of jumping out of the rice jar, but he could not leave the temptation of so much comfort and food around, so he just stayed there.

Until one day, when the jar ran out of grains.

He impulsively looked outside and cried, because now he was trapped inside the deep bottom of the jar. He was literally in his own shit, and was solely depend on someone to put grains in the same jar for him to survive.

But that was an old story.

New Story goes like this..

A mouse accidentally fell into a jar full of grains.

He had so much of food around him, he was tempted to eat and sleep in Jar but, he resisted the temptation.

He kept on jumping out of the Jar to look for the grains outside, and he came back to the jar once in a while.

He ate the grains of Jar only when he did not find the grains outside.

So the grains of Jar also kept reducing but at a slower speed.

And due to that the mouse kept jumping higher and higher.

After long time, this jar also got empty, but since he kept practicing jumping out of the jar and jumping into the jar, he became strong that he could jump the full height of jar.

So he jumped out of the jar when it became empty and kept searching the food at other places like he did earlier.

Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.

Moral of the story:

• Short term pleasures can lead to long-term traps.
• Action not taken at right time will make one lazy and inefficient.
• If we can withstand the challenges of life, then we shall choose challenges over comfort.
• We shall keep polishing our skills and keep us updated new skills as the situation demands.

As Robert Collier said, “You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.”

Cheers!!