I have decided to share this piece I got from Whatsapp as it perfectly describes my state of mind and aptly translates to our status quo.
Once upon a time in the animal Kingdom there ruled a Lion. Although this Lion was King, he was old, weak, and frail. The old Lion would have loved to relinquish power to a younger Lion and live out his last days in quietude but the Jackal and Hyena his two closest courtiers would not hear of it because they enjoyed living in the palace and it was certainly a new Lion King would come with his own courtiers and they would become irrelevant.
The old Lion managed to keep on ruling but with each day he got weaker and weaker until one day he was too weak to leave his cave not to talk of hunting for food. This was a major crisis for the Hyena and Jackal. They were mainly scavengers and did little or no hunting, they lived on the remnants of whatever the Lion killed. The Lion summoned them and told them it was time to hand over to a younger Lion since it was obvious his days were numbered because a Lion who could not hunt was as good as dead.
The Hyena and Jackal would not hear of it and they finally devised a plan. They informed all the weaker animals that King Lion was very sick and he needed help to clean the cave, make food, and generally commiserate with the sick King, but because the cave was too small only one animal at a time could visit. “Zebra will come first, then deer would come the next day, then Antelope the day after.’’
So the animals started coming to visit but immediately they got into the cave the Hyena and the Jackal pounced on them and ate them. They ate the Zebra, they ate the deer, and they ate the Antelope. They gave the Lion just enough food to keep him alive and whenever the Lioness wanted to see her husband the Hyena and Jackal gave excuses. ‘’He is sleeping and wants no one to disturb him.’’ The Lioness became fed up with this and she went to consult the cunning fox.
The fox waited until it was his turn to visit. But when he got to the cave entrance he noticed that all the footsteps led into the cave but none was coming out. He shouted a greeting from the entrance and the Hyena and Jackal came to the entrance of the cave to urge him to come in. When the fox noticed how well-fed the pair looked he ran away to report to the Lioness what he had observed. So the Lioness rallied the strong animals, the Elephant, the Buffalo, the Leopard, and the Hippo and they stormed into the cave to catch the Hyena and the Jackal just finishing off the goat and lying around were the bones of their earlier victims.
The Lion was even too sick to know what was happening, the Hyena and Jackal had taken advantage of Lion’s ill health to enrich themselves. A new Lion was soon elected and the treacherous pair, the Hyena and the Jackal were sent out of the kingdom, forever and ever.
The moral of my story is that if good people surround themselves with evil people bad things are bound to happen.
If I add more to this I would be wasting your time. It’s painful though that someone reading this and knows he is one of the hyenas and jackals is not willing to change. The foxes amongst us are being suppressed and intimidated. The Elephant, Hippo, Buffalo, etc are caught in a rat race of survival without the ginger by the fox. However, the day comes when the children of the animals will throw caution to the winds and devour the children of the hyena and jackal or inspire them to revolt against their thieving fathers.
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