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 the 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, 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 of 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 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 relationships.
From India, Coimbatore
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746When 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?
Scroll down to read....
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 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 relationships.
From India, Coimbatore
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Wonderful story. Apart from good relationships, I feel the story also gives a lesson about living from moment to moment as the great intellectual J. Krishnamurti would say or some of the wonderful things written in the book "The Power of Now".
Though playing the blame game is undesirable as is brought out by the story, our shastras have said that to solve a problem you have to get to the root, and to do that, some blame has to be apportioned. Therefore, it all depends on with what motive you blame. As the saying goes, "God punishes the intention, not the action." In my view, only blaming with dubious motives and vested interest is undesirable.
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Though playing the blame game is undesirable as is brought out by the story, our shastras have said that to solve a problem you have to get to the root, and to do that, some blame has to be apportioned. Therefore, it all depends on with what motive you blame. As the saying goes, "God punishes the intention, not the action." In my view, only blaming with dubious motives and vested interest is undesirable.
From India, New Delhi
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