Blame not...
A sad and meaningful story.....
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.
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.
we have to be lighter sometime to make things work and to think right..
back in the UK my Mum was learning to drive, one day she asked if I would sit in the car with her while she drove around as I had passed my test and she was allowed on the road if I was with her.
So, leaving my car with my Father, we went out in his car, his pride and joy.
We were only out for about 30 minutes when my Mum tried to make a right hand turn and instead of braking she accelerated, thus, hitting a car on one side and then panicking and hitting a church wall!!!
My Mum was frozen to the wheel in shock, I left to phone my father who got into my car and rushed to where we were,
his car was a wreck but instead of being angry, he gently prised my Mums hands from the steering wheel, gave her a hug and said "well love, that solved the problem of having to buy new tires"
My Mum has never driven since but is forever grateful to my Father for so calmly dealing with the situation :)
This is what marriage is about.. SHARING & UNDERSTANDING... good or bad
Never Ask for a SMILE..just GIVE it..