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A Journey of A Thousand Miles
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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.


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.

The husband just said "I am with you, darling."
 
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a 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 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.


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Reviewed by Barrie Berry
Reviewed on October 19, 2008
This article is beautiful, marriage is a bond between two people that should be able to weather any storms, but so many times the slightest trimmer seems destroy so many. This article shows a couple that could definitely stand the test of time. Love it!!!!

Reviewed by Ingrid Khola (Reader)
Reviewed on May 12, 2006
Thanks for sharing, this is a life lesson.

Reviewed by Hiren Shah
Reviewed on October 6, 2005
Very nice article. The way the husband responded is a lesson to everybody on how response is different from a reaction which is more emotional. Blame game and unforgiveness harms oneself more becuase of the negative energy involved.

Reviewed by Roger Ochs
Reviewed on August 18, 2005
"Step by step the longest march
Can be done, can be done.
Many stones can form an arch
Singly none, singly none." - American Folk Tune

Your piece reminded me of this old (but true) song.

Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
Simply Put Why Only Few Of Us will Survive Coming Holocaust!

As (God) You Will Find Is Merciless---Who Cares What Who Believes
Or Doesn't Believe,i.e. FREE WILL TO DO AS HUMANS PLEASE Create Holocaust!

TRASK

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
Sandie, you have the wisdom of a sage. If only people would react like that most wars would end for starting and there'd be no one to blame. Iraqis are suffering because Bush blamed 9/11 on Saddam Hussein.

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
I agree wholeheartedly that they both needed the other to support them in the terrible time in their lives. Still, Sandra, they will forever blame themselves and each other for the carelessness which caused the death of their child. Quite a moralistic rticle here.

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