So there’s this story lingering in my head that I think I heard a long time ago, and I can’t find it. I wanna paraphrase it here in case anyone can find a lead. It’s about a man who adopts and loves a wild animal despite warnings from everyone around him that’s it’s dangerous.
One day, while in the mountain, a hiker met a young injured wolf in the snow. He took it home and began to care for it.
His wife said “When that wolf grows up, it will kill you”
“I would love him all the same.” He wasn’t deterred. He treated its wounds.
His neighbor said “that wolf is wild! It will kill you”
“I would love him all the same.” He wasn’t deterred. He raised it.
His town said “that animal is dangerous! It will eat you”
“I would love him all the same.” He wasn’t deterred. He trained it.
Years later, he and the wolf were hiking in the mountain, when a blizzard hit. They got lost, and supplies were running out. They were cold and hungry, and while the two were dying, the man blacked out.
After a while, a bit of consciousness returned to him. When he opened his eyes, he saw the wolf was chewing on his side.
“Thank god,” he said. “Thank god one of us will get to live…”
Anyway, that’s how I remember it going. I don’t know what the moral is, and honestly, the moral feels like it’s in some grey area. It feels like a story of love no matter what, but it also feels like metaphor for a problematic one sided relationship. I’m sure there’s more nuances to make it more clear from the source material.
I would appreciate if you could help me find the story, or where you heard it yourself. Theres a chance I might have came up with it myself. If that were the case, it was so long ago I had tricked myself into thinking it wasn’t mine. But that’s a very slim chance, so I’m trying to look into it here.
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