The Profundity of Indifference

 *6th April 2019* 

Ever pocked a tortoise?

Those creatures are just unirritable, their only reaction to disturbance is hiding their head in the shell for a few seconds then go on with their business.

In fact if you keep poking, they might totally ignore you and just keep eating.

Maybe it's their so called wisdom, maybe it's their lack of an arsenal to attack you with or their slow pace which can't take them away from you.

Be a tortoise my friend, otherwise, how will you get polished if you are irritated by every rub?

They say indifference is the cause of evil.

The Rat Trap

(Author Unknown)

A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package.He was aghast to discover that it was a rat trap. Retreating to the barnyard the rat proclaimed the warning; “There’s a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Excuse me, Mr. Rat, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”

The pig told him "I am so very sorry Mr. Rat, but there is nothing I can do, Be assured that you are in my prayers.”

The cow said, “Like wow, Mr. Rat. a rat trap. I am in grave danger. Duh?” So the rat returned to the house, to face the farmer’s rat trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a rat trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever.

Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the barnyard for the soup’s main ingredient.

His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer’s wife did not get well.  She died, and so many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

Now that's an example of failed indifference and it does suggest that the title of this article should be *The Profundity of Indifference and the Lack of it* but then that would take away from the moral am pointing to.

Applied in its proper context, indifference will save you from psychological stress, anxiety and emotional hurt when:

•People you expect to support you don't, mostly family and close friends.

• Work colleagues and spouses don't see your efforts

•People pretend not to recognize you.

The list is endless, most people die without getting the credit they deserve.

It's not that people hate you or choose to be however they choose to be, it's just

people are just people, now deal with it.

Be indifferent

F*** your opinion.