The Inner Mouse Shares Cheese

[windwoman]

I so love this thread. I agree that this would make a profound childrens book. I don't have anything clever or insightful to add. However, I find myself thinking of this little analogy often since I first read it.

I've noticed, in my life, that since I have become ill I have very little cheese to share and have become very protective of my meager little stash. Most of the rats in my life seem to have abandoned ship. And the new rats that try to board soon learn they have to actually work for the cheese, so they leave as well. Thanks for helping me find the "silver lining" to some life altering health issues

 

[angel2write]

I don't think this paper mouse knows how much cheese he offers to others.

She's absolutely right. You've offered so much good advice, knowledge, understanding and support...

You're handing out cheese right and left and don't recognize it for what it is!!!

 

[angel2write]

If the mouse says, "No, no, keep your cheese. I just want you to have some of mine" and they are not a mouse you have a history of sharing freely with, there's a good chance they're a rat! And rats, like the witches of gingerbread houses, only want you to eat all their cheese toucan swallow to fix you right to eat.

Don't let the rats consume you. Share cheese like friends--mutually.

There's an interesting rat identifier I hadn't spotted yet. The rat who wants to make you dependent on him or her... so they can keep you in a little cage as a pet. Yikes!

It just occurred to me that a friend who is trying to get back in touch with me right now is exactly this kind of rat!

Thanks M.A.S.

 

[Nicolette]

Has anyone read the book "Who moved my cheese"?... it can be applied to PTSD in that the 'barriers' of life shift and change and if you don't move with them and watch out for them you end up lost. It's a very simple book but the message is profound.

 

[Nicolette]

 

[mamachick]

THis is a wonderful analogy. You are very creative. I agree that you have the ability to write childrens books, but also think there are so many adults that get great pleasure from such stories and lessons.