HEARTFELT STORY.
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.
One morning, when the boy was around two years old, the
husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he
asked the wife to cap the bottle and put it in the cupboard.
The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the
matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to it 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 would she 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.
“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 put the bottle away, this
would not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had
also lost her only child.
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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’s to blame, whether in a relationship, in a
job or with the people we know and miss out on the warmth in
human relationships we could receive by giving each other
support.
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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 onto
forgiveness. Let go of all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness
to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are
actually not as difficult as you think. If everyone could look at
life with this kind of perspective, there would be fewer problems
in the world.
