Be Slow to judge.
A cruise ship met with an accident at sea, on the
ship was a married couple, after having made their way to the lifeboat, they
realized that there was only space for one person left.
At this moment, the man pushed the woman behind him
and jumped onto the lifeboat himself.
The lady stood on the sinking ship and shouted one
sentence to her husband.
The teacher stopped and asked, "What do you
think she shouted?"
Most of the students excitedly answered, "I
hate you! I was blind!"
Now, the teacher noticed a boy who was silent
throughout, she got him to answer and he replied, "Teacher, I believe she
would have shouted - Take care of our child!"
The teacher was surprised, asking "Have you
heard this story before?"
The boy shook his head, "Nope, but that was
what my mum told my dad before she died to disease".
The teacher lamented, "The answer is
right".
The cruise sunk, the man went home and brought up
their daughter single-handedly.
Many years later after the death of the man, their
daughter found his diary while tidying his belongings.
It turns out that when her parents went onto the cruise
ship, her mother was already diagnosed with a terminal illness.
At the critical moment, the father rushed to the
only chance of survival.
He wrote in his diary, "How I wished to sink
to the bottom of the ocean with you, but for the sake of our daughter, I can
only let you lie forever below the sea alone".
The story is finished, the class was silent.
The teacher knows that the student has understood
the moral of the story, that of the good and the evil in the world, there are
many complications behind them which are hard to understand.
Which is why we should never only focus on the
surface and judge others without understanding them first.
Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because
they are loaded but because they value friendship above money.
Those who take the initiative at work, do so not
because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of
responsibility.
Those who apologizes first after a fight, do so not
because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.
Those who are willing to help you, do so not
because they owe you any thing but because they see you as a true friend.
Those who often text you, do so not because they
have nothing better to do but because you are in their heart.
One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything & nothing; the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare... One day our children will see our pictures and ask 'Who are these people?' And we will smile with invisible tears because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say:
'IT WAS WITH THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY
LIFE'.
Thanks for this beautiful post Mr. M, I love this one, keep up the good work Justine
ReplyDeletethanks Justine, good to know that comments and feedback can be posted.
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