A cruise ship
met with an accident at sea. On the ship was a couple who, 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!" etc
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 parents went onto the cruise ship, the 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. This 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
apologize 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 anything 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 THEM
THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE WITH.
#KipSmiln’
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