Friday, January 09, 2009

BE PATIENT

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.

People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

3 comments:

cync said...

it's frightening what a person in fit of fury can do blindly.

all3 said...

A good lesson learnt here. Thx.

FM Luder said...

All humans all have the ability/capacity to do this unfortunate thing. It's all about how well we know how to control it! There are times when you feel that sudden anger or rage inside - but you have to quell it as soon as possible to stop further damage.

Although from my perspective it's NEVER about violence but about the mental damage that you can do.