Tuesday, July 3, 2007.12:56 AM
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 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. He died.
The mother was stunned. She was terrified how
she was going 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?
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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.
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MORAL OF THE STORY
This story is really worth reading. 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.
Blaming games are seriously energy zapping...you know you should be more understanding, not be absorbed in your emotions and most of the time, by the time you realise, you've already committed all these crimes. Oh, was watching Animal Planet and saw this program about bad-tempered animals. Shrew* is No.7! Shrew's this mouse-like creature that is literally fast and furious and their lifespans are short - they barely live beyond their 1 yr old birthday. Research reveals that getting angry makes you more susceptible to heart attacks and a shorter lifespan. So...better control your temper and you might want to sign up for a Yoga or Zen class! Heh. I choose Pilates - have been wanting to do that for eons... (not that Pilates does anything to curb one's temper)
*shrew (noun)
1. a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman (This definition was used since the 14th Century. Why Why??? MEN can be scolding, nagging and bad-tempered too. There's one inside my house.)
2. small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University
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