A great story I read somewhere and
one that gave me a huge lesson of life.Source is not known but to me it was a
life changer.Minor modifications and editing done by me.
A cruise ship met with an
incident at sea, on the ship was a 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 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.
Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without
understanding them first.
Many of hose 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.
Many of those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you any
thing but because they feel its being human.
Many of 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 have memories 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'.
Send this to all your friends and family that
you will never forget. Thank you for making me smile for sometime in my life...
AUTHOR OF STORY:UNKNOWN
