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, 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:
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
something
called L.I.F.E
