The Mouse That Went Looking for a Husband

1. The Mouse That Went Looking for a Husband

2. A mouse found a place to live in the walls of an old house. One day it was amazed when it peeked out of its hole and witnessed a beautiful wedding. The groom stood under a white cloth canopy. The bride walked around the groom seven times, and the groom led her under the white silk canopy.

3. The bride allowed the groom to place a golden ring on her finder. Thewedding agreement was read aloud, and the coupled broke the with a loud shout of “Mazal tov! -- which means good luck. Then came the wedding party with food and gifts, dancing and singing. The mouse said, “ I want to get married, too.” But she did not want to marry another mouse, “ I want to marry someone better than a mouse.” she said. “Mice are week and fearful. I want to marry someone powerful.”

4. She asked her friends, the other mice, “ Who is powerful?” “The sun is powerful,” said the other mice. Mouse climbed to the highest roof in her little village, and she called out to the sun, “ Sun, you shine above everything. You are powerful.” The sun laughed and said, “ I am not so powerful. Every night I must fall below the earth, and in the morning I must rise again. I can never stay in once place. You should marry a mouse.”

5. “No,” said the mouse. “You shine over everything in the world.” “Ha!” laughed the sun. “The cloud covers me, and then I cannot shine at all.” “Then I shall marry the cloud,” said the mouse, and she called to the cloud. “Cloud, marry me. You are the most powerful one of all. You can block the sun that shines above everything.”

6. The cloud just laughed and said, “ I have no power to move or even to stay still. The wind pushes me everywhere.” So the mouse called the wind, “ Wind, marry me. You are the most powerful being in the world. You can push the cloud that blocks the sun that shines above everything.” The wind laughed and whispered in the mouse’s ear, I seem powerful as long as nothing stands against me, but as soon

7. as I meet a wall I am stopped.” There was an ancient castle outside the mouse's village and that castle had a huge wall around it. So the mouse went to the wall and said, “Wall, marry me. You are so powerful and mighty you can stop the wind that blows the clouds that block the sun that shines on everything.” The wall did not laugh.

8. Instead, it cried, “Why have you come to tease me in my weakness.?” “How can a wall be weak? You are thick and high and made of solid stone,” said the mouse. “Your people, the mice, have dug thousands of tunnels under me. When the rain comes, the water ours down their tunnels and washed away the earth.

9. The ground beneath me is collapsing. I am sinking and cracking. Some day I will fall and become a pile of rubble. Those weak and fearful mice have the power to break the wall that stops that the wind that blocks the sun that shines above everything. Go marry a mouse.” And so she did.

10. Moral of the Story: Never try to run after power, you will fail. Don’t try to be someone that you are not.