We Are All At RISK…..

A little mouse living on a farm was looking through a crack in the wall one day he saw the farmer and his wife opening a package. Mouse was intrigued by what food the package may contain. He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap. The mouse ran to the farmyard warning everyone: “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house!”

The chicken raised his head and said: “Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this trap is grave concern to you, but it has no consequence to me and I cannot be bothered with it.”

The mouse turned to the pig. “I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse, but the trap I no concern of mine either.”

The mouse then turned to the bull. “Sounds like you have a problem Mr. Mouse but not one that concern me.”

The mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected that no one would help him or was concerned about his dilemma. He knew he had to face the trap on his own. That night the sound of a trap catching it’s pray was heard throughout the house. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness she could not see that it was venomous snake who’s tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The wife caught the bad fever and the farmer knew the best way to treat the fever was with chicken soup. The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the main ingredient of the soup. The wife got sicker and friends and neighbours came by to take turn sitting with her round the clock. The farmer knew he had to feed them, so he butchered the pig. The farmer wife did not get better, in fact she died and so many friends and family came to her funeral that the farmer had to slaughter the bull to feed all of them.

So the next time we hear that one of our teammates is facing a problem and think it does not concern or affect us, let us remember that when anyone of us is in trouble, we all are at risk.

GOOD is not GOOD where BETTER is EXPECTED and the BEST is POSSIBLE!!!