[A very short story]
Some time ago, when Verbascums were in full bloom,
I went to Mt. Hymittos, parked my car on the side of the road
and started looking for a Verbascum to take a picture of.
After having taken the photo above,
I returned to the car to pick up something I had forgotten there.
I saw an animal curiously looking into the car
through the half-opened window.
Was it a burglar looking for something to steal
or was it “a poor empty stomach”
desperately looking for something to eat?
Frightened by my unexpected arrival, it jumped off my car…
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and rather disappointed, it slowly walked away…
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sniffing the ground for traces that would possibly lead to food.
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Quite some time later, on my way home,
I saw an animal lover
offering the poor hungry animal a rich evening meal!
Well done, my friend!
👍👍👍
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The last photo seems to show just an animal.
It surely does so, but it also shows something invisible:
gratitude!
This fox is just one of the various foxes
that the animal lover fed on each of his visits to the mountain
before he went home.
In spite of being hungry,
when she realized that the man was leaving,
she stopped eating and kept looking at him with deep gratitude
until he was out of sight at the end of the road!
Love for animals and Gratitude:
Two lessons we may need to learn,
no matter whether they originate from a human being
or from an animal!