Catch Me if You Can

There was a jackal in the jungle who was very very hungry. But it didn’t want to hunt. He came across a baby deer eating grass all by itself. The jackal thought,” Aha what luck!!! This will take care of my stomach for 2-3 days”. 

But you see the law of the jungle set by the lion, the king of the jungle was You Can’t Hunt Children, the ones who can’t defend themselves.

The jackal thought “No one is around to see that I killed this deer. No one will ever find out.” He looked around, high and low, near and far and didn’t see anybody.

So he fed himself. Within a few days, the lion announced a meeting. All the animals of the jungle gathered around. The mother of the dead deer was crying her heart out. Pointing to the jackal, she said ” I seek justice”. 

The lion asked the jackal, ” Did you hunt her child?” The jackal looked straight into the lion’s eyes and said, ” Why should I? Has anybody seen me kill the deer? Is there any proof? “

The lion smiled at the jackal and called the Owl. Now when the jackal was busy hunting the deer the Owl was sitting completely silent on the branch of the tree above and was hidden in the shadows of the leaves.

The Owl told the whole jungle what it saw and the Jackal was sentenced to death. When we lie we believe that there is no proof, that we will never be caught.

 There is something or someone always watching us.