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 an
opened medicine bottle. He was late for work, so he asked the wife to cap
the bottle and place it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the
kitchen, totally forgot the matter. The boy playfully went to the medicine
bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a
poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages.
When the child showed signs of poisoning the mother took 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 four words.
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QUESTIONS :
1. What were the four words ?
2. What is the implication of this story ?
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The husband just said "I Love You Darling" .
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior.
What a wonderful response. The child was dead. He could never be
brought back to life. There was no point in finding fault with the mother.
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 could 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 actually not so difficult as you think."