An
Inspirational 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. 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.
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.
Source: http://academictips.org/blogs/a-couples-heartbreak/
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