The CHEE$E

How to get caught in a self made trap

The CHEE$E…

Imagine a box full of mice and not enough CHEE$E to feed them all. Messy right? Well imagine that the mice made a business within this box and found a way to generate much more CHEE$E. Like any other “business” there was a pecking order, the boss, the management, the employees, the off workers like the cleaning lady per say. With that being said, let’s take a look deep into the story of these mice. The boss mouse was a great jolly yet not so jolly kind of mouse, let’s call the boss “Mr. Mouse” then there was the mouse that took the goods that Mr. Mouse’s box mice made to other boxes to sell and bring back CHEE$E to Mr. Mouse, her name will be “Freedom Fighter” because she refused to be locked up in the same box with the same mice day after day and lose herself to the corporate box life. Mr. Mouse always made fun of Freedom Fighter behind her back but said she was the reason the box was getting the CHEE$E it needs to survive, so she is awesome for that!! Next in line came the mouse that came into this new box from a really messed up box where her mother was injured and stuck in a world she didn’t want to be in so she took it out on her and her brother mouse. This mouse grew up in the corporate yet very street life, never living in one box for long and learned a lot quick and could read the other mice better than most. She will be called “Sunset” Sunset was not like all the other mice in this new box but felt more comfortable with them, then in her family’s box. Mr. Mouse also reminded her of her mother in a way because they would both have sudden rude outburst and then be all lovey-dovey the next minute. Most of the other mice couldn’t figure out Mr. Mouse and where afraid of him but not Sunset. Sunset quickly moved up in the ranks in this new box because it was common sense work but it seemed most in the box lack such a simple thing. Mr. Mouse promised Sunset that if she could fix the books and get things running smoothly that he would take care of her for life. He would always say “it’s me and you forever Sunset” this always made Sunset feel special. As the box grew in size because of Sunset’s hard work to stop the CHEE$E Taxers from taking Mr. Mouse’s CHEE$E and even used her own personal CHEE$E to feed the worker mice when they felt unappreciated and then the CHEE$E really start coming in. Mr. Mouse had family move from a faraway box to our box neighborhood and his Sister “Missy Mouse” was working in a box that was not given her enough CHEE$E to feed her faraway from box where her kids where, so Sunset asked Mr. Mouse to hire Missy Mouse and give her enough CHEE$E to help her, after all it is his sister. So Missy was hired. Then Missy’s family saw how good Missy was doing and decided to come out to our neighborhood too. So then we hired “Bubba Mouse” and “Momma Mouse” and they had three little girls named “Mighty, Mouthy, and Mini Mouse” and soon the business was bombing and so much CHEE$E was coming in but Mr. Mouse was taking it all back to his part of the box and his pile was getting bigger and bigger, Sunset had a nice pile of CHEE$E from her family box that she brought with her to this new box and when Mr. Mouse’s family would complain about not having enough CHEE$E even now and Mr. Mouse would get angry at such request that he would go to Sunset and vent to her about how much everyone in the box was an idiot and didn’t deserve the CHEE$E they had. This was always hard for Sunset to deal with but she always pulled through and made things better for Mr. Mouse. She would take piles of CHEE$E from her saving and give it to the other mice in the box so that they would continue to be happy and work pleasantly even while they were being treating badly by Mr. Mouse in front and behind their backs. Every day Sunsets pile would get smaller and smaller but Mr. Mouse’s pile would continue to grow. Sunset had a little boy name “Mindful Mouse” who would always question why mommy was giving away our CHEE$E and Sunset would tell his because they need it more than we do. Mindful Mouse always understood and loved his mommy even more for it. As time went on, Mr. Mouse would always promise Sunset better but soon she realized that something was not right, for her pile was shrinking and everyone else around her was sitting on nice sized piles of CHEE$E. Then Sunset went to visit her family box for Christmas and New Years and when she returned to the new box there was a new mouse, this mouse was a familiar face. A mouse that did something similar to what we did in the new box but she was given Mr. Mouse the same or similar ideas that Sunset tried so hard to get put into place before she got there and was shot down by Mr. Mouse but Mr. Mouse acted like he had never heard such great ideas and offered to pay this new mouse 4x times for a year then Sunset. Her pile grew bigger than Sunset’s overnight, her name is “One-Smart Mouse” this made Sunset feel confused because it went agents everything Mr. Mouse has said in the past but Mr. Mouse had a really big crush on One-Smart and wanted her for a long time that is why she was a familiar face to Sunset. After a couple months Sunset looks at her saving pile and realized after so many blind years that her pile was never going to be as big as Mr. Mouse promised and even worst realizes that this is this point where she must leave the box if she will ever survive. All the other mice are very judgmental of this, asking Sunset how could you let your pile get so low? I don’t believe that your pile is that low, you must be lying. I wish there was something I could do to help…but all in all they are just words. The same mice that Sunset gave her pile up for, were now laughing at Sunset for being so stupid in her judgement, to take care of the box instead of her family box was just plain dumb. Sunset felt the reticule and judgement and really wanted out of the box but didn’t understand how she let this happen, how could she have been so blind… Now she was judging herself and badly. She went to bed almost every night in tears and drowning in fears that she let her family box down by meeting Mr. Mouse. Sunset finally worked up the nerve to tell Mr. Mouse how she felt and he said he understood and would take care of her when he got back from his meeting, he even shed a tear and made Sunset feel like everything was going to be okay but then started avoiding her, not taking her to meeting that he previously asked her to attend and acting like he never asked. Mr. Mouse knew this day was coming but had so much CHEE$E that he didn’t want to give Sunset her fair share because then his pile will be smaller than it is right now… Sunset waited till a couple days after Mr. Mouse returned from the meeting and asked him to honor is promise and he said that she would break the bank if he paid her all that CHEE$E now and was going give her a little here and a little there and then double her CHEE$E salary, Sunset got very upset and backed herself so far in the deepest corner of this new box and knew that she needed to find a way out and was okay with just leaving empty handed because she was only in this position because she put herself there. Love yourself and have no fears and don’t stick around where you just pore tears. This is a very big lesson and this is a lesson that needs to be shared.

“DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE SELF MADE TRAP, IT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST TO GET OUT OF AND YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE TO BLAME.”

Author's Note

This is my first public post.