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A boy was born
to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a
loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eyes. When
the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband
saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked
the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The
mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the
matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and,
fascinated with its color, 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 four
words.
What do you think were the four words?
The husband just said "I Love You Darling"
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is 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 have taken time to keep the bottle away,
this will not have happened. No
point in attaching blame. 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.
Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to
blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the
people we know. We miss out some warmth in human
relationship in giving each other support. After all,
shouldn't forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in
the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don't multiply
pain, anguish and suffering by holding on to forgiveness.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective,
there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to
forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are
actually not as difficult as you think.
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