A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and doted on the boy. When the child was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was running late so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it safely in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen forgot about the matter.
The boy happened to come upon the bottle and drank the medicine. The medicine was meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed his mother hurried him to the hospital, where he was in intensive care. The mother was stunned by this and was terrified to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital, he looked at his wife and uttered just ten words.
He said, “I am with you, darling. I belong to you.”
The husband’s totally unexpected reaction caught the wife off guard. She fell in his arms and began sobbing uncontollaby releasing her pent up grief.
The husband was extremely upset but he was quick to size up the situation. The child was ill. He may or may not survive. 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 was in distress too. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy. That is what he gave her.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be fewer problems in the world. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, blame, and fears and you will find things are not as difficult as you think.
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