Make your choices

Make your choices

There is a tale of yore. One about the unlikely relation between a cat and a mouse. The story goes “A certain cat had made the acquaintance of a mouse, and had said so much to her about the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at length the mouse agreed that they should live and keep house together.” They plan at length about how they are going to keep house and how they’d care about each other in times of need. The story goes on to say how they worked together to save a pot of fat for the bad days. The story then tells us of how the cat goes on to steal the fat, a lick at a time initially and then by the lot later. It also tells how the cats, while reluctant to cheat in the beginning becomes more at ease with cheating. They story ends with the mouse realizing that he had been cheated by the cat, who immediately eats the mouse. She then tells herself that a mouse is there to be eaten.
There then are two moral in the story. Nature has made a cat and a mouse differently. They can never be live in friends, ever. The second is that it is only the first crime that puts your conscience ill at ease. The more you do it the easier it becomes.
So why this story? We befriend or are befriended by people all the time. People we meet for the first time. People who try to impress upon us that they are there for you in times of need. They insist on being the very soul of goodness and through deeds and word make you trust them implicitly. You are made to believe that they will stand by you when you most need. They even convince you to leave tried and trusted relationships, you have known for years.
And then the time of reckoning comes and the truth shall dawn. This is the moment when you will regret the choice of this new-fangled relation. You will sit in the corner sobbing to yourself.
Some relations are not to be.