A
boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving
couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years
old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle kept open. He was late for
office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His
wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the
bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it
all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages.
When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died.
The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the
distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his
wife and uttered just five words.
QUESTIONS
:
1.
What were the five words ? 2. What is the implication of
this story?
ANSWER
: The husband just said "I am with you Darling"
The
husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is
dead. He can never be brought back to life.
There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away,
this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only
child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the
husband. That is what he gave her.
If everyone can look at life with this kind
of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. "A
journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Take off all your
envies, jealousies, unforgiveness,
selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult
as you think.
MORAL
OF THE STORY
Sometimes
we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a
relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some
warmth in human relationship.
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