How many of you can truthfully say that you like rats? If you see a rat around where you are right now would you treat it with mango juice and Oreo biscuits like you would for a guest or would you treat it with sticks and stones and a mouse trap? I can bet almost all of you are saying mouse trap, and those who are not, are lying to yourselves. Yet you know not the reason behind this animosity. One so grave that you would resort to killing a living being though its done nothing wrong to you. In fact it might be just like you and me, in search for the two things we need to survive, food and love. Some might say that we detest these rodents simply because they carry plagues and diseases. But is not a squirrel capable of carrying the same disease of these rats? If you tale off the fluffy tail and dip a squirrel in black paint it might even look alike. Yet we hate the rats and not so much a squirrel.
This was one the explanations a German soldier gave to a french daily farmer when he came to conduct a search for any Jews the farmer might be housing!
Sometimes you know not why to dislike some people. You know not why you find them irritating. Others who would do just the same things to you, you can tolerate. But some, you detest for reasons you yourself cannot understand. I guess that's the way life is! I remember considering myself one that can accept people way they are. I can, ironically, still say that. Except this time there is a 'but' to that statement. I can accept people the way they are as long as they don't meddle with my life.
Maybe I'm missing out on a friendship that would have lasted a long time. Maybe I'm missing out on a lot of benefits these people would have got for me. Maybe these people have changed now ( and if they have i'l be the happiest person around) but I still cannot let them inside my life again. I cannot trust them and what kind friendship is not based on trust....a bad one. And a bad friendship should be ended. Now the question is...the next time a rat enters your house, what would you do?
This was one the explanations a German soldier gave to a french daily farmer when he came to conduct a search for any Jews the farmer might be housing!
Sometimes you know not why to dislike some people. You know not why you find them irritating. Others who would do just the same things to you, you can tolerate. But some, you detest for reasons you yourself cannot understand. I guess that's the way life is! I remember considering myself one that can accept people way they are. I can, ironically, still say that. Except this time there is a 'but' to that statement. I can accept people the way they are as long as they don't meddle with my life.
Maybe I'm missing out on a friendship that would have lasted a long time. Maybe I'm missing out on a lot of benefits these people would have got for me. Maybe these people have changed now ( and if they have i'l be the happiest person around) but I still cannot let them inside my life again. I cannot trust them and what kind friendship is not based on trust....a bad one. And a bad friendship should be ended. Now the question is...the next time a rat enters your house, what would you do?
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