Life & its Meaning

Life & its Meaning

Reproducing a mail from a friend without any comments:

THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE"

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

Regards,

N

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