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tale 55 don’t serve the lion Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79
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The lion can give and take. So, don’t serve the
lion! Once upon a time, there was a very strong monkey.
The lion proposed the monkey to work for him. So, the strong monkey began to
work for the lion, stole from the small monkeys, plundered their villages and
got a horse, a house, a position and many other things from the lion as a
kind of payment. One day while plundering a settlement, he met an
old monkey, who told him, “The lion can give and take. So, don’t work for the
lion!” Our strong monkey only laughed at him. Some month later, another strong monkey came who
seemed to be more loyal to the lion. So, the lion took everything from him. “That’s
not right!” our hero said. He left the court and turned to the small monkeys
but they only laughed at him, “The lion can give you right and take the right
from you. So, you shouldn’t have worked for the lion!” He went to the biggest animal, the elephant. This
animal was already very old and very wise. Monkey: “Why do you serve the lion?” Elephant: “I’m the leader of the elephants but
not for all of them. I don’t serve the lion but I can’t go against him
because there are many spies, traitors, henchmen and feet lickers like once
you were one. It will still take a long time before all the animals without
power unite against the lion and other lions. However, there is a slow
change, just like you have changed and there will be more and more like you.
We have to educate them and they have to learn that it’s not worth to serve
the powerful whoever they are and that it’s better to think themselves and
not being told what to do. Some thousand years ago, there was a very
intelligent animal in Greece, which dreamt of democracy. Monkey: What is “democracy”? Elephant: “demos” means the small animals and
“democracy” means the rule of the small animals. The idea has been born and
can never be made forgotten anymore, but it’s easier for a handful of
powerful to trust each other than for many small animals to work together
without a leader. Our strong monkey thought for a long time before
recognizing that the whole affair was not about him and the injustice having
happened to him. It took him some more years to stand on the side
of the small animals because he understood “If you stand by the weak, you
will be great! If you stand by the powerful, you can only be a henchman!” However, there are more and more strong animals
understanding that it’s not worth to serve the lions. Continue with tale 56! |
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Sonntag, 5. Juli 2020
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