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 colour 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 ten words.
The husband just said , "I am with you, Darling . I belong to You."
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behaviour. 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. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are not actually not as difficult as you think.
great story
ReplyDeleteGreat example teaching imporating things :
ReplyDeleteThe gone is already gone... he can never be back... now don't let the other person feel guilty of what had happened... People, who anyhow linked with the tragic happenings, have tendency to feel guilty in such conditions. The need is to take them out of that guilt instead of criticizing them, otherwise you may lose them also !