Posted on: 07-10-06 13:14:44
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 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. "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 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 some warmth in human relationship.
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Originally posted by anujark
MORAL OF THE STORY 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 some warmth in human relationship.
I'm with you on the message, but IMHO, the story is err...a bit extreme and way too righteous. I don't know any parent in the world who would simply stop at uttering the "5 words" if their child dies, you'd have to be superhuman to have that kind of control.
Just saying that the story seems way too heavy w.r.t. to the point being made...kinda like using a CAA tow-truck to tow a tricycle.
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Are you there?
I once came to learn about an incident in which the mother unknowingly suffocated an infant child with the pillow..........I bet she can never forget that.
I think another moral of the above story is .... that life is 25% happenings and 75% reactions to the happenings.Imagine if the husband would have got mad @ his wife and the wife would have committed suicide the husband would have lost both ...his wife and his child..... so we should be pro active and patient in our reactions.
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Fido.
yes, I agree with Bluelobster that the story is too heavy for the point being made. but the message was really good ...that was the reason I posted it.
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Work is forever. Childhood is only once. Spend time with your kids...
