TENDER HEART’S GIFT

This was first time, a seven-year old child troubling her mother. She said arrogantly, “I won’t eat anything. I won’t do any of my homework. I won’t do anything, whatever you insist!” There was a strong confrontation between her and her mother.

The father returned after his work. The mother screamed, “Your beloved daughter has become so naughty, how difficult it is for me to deal with her. First, try to manage her!” The child being father’s pet, moved towards him and said, “Father, I will do whatever you command, provided you give me fifty rupees!”

Never before his child had behaved like this. Her intense action for sake of money was difficult to comprehend for this empathetic father. He thought, “My child might desire money for just enjoying ice-creams or chocolates. We can guide her, if she is diverted in wrong track!” So, Next day, the father followed the child without showing his identify, when she was moving towards the school. As the father thought, she moved towards the ice-cream parlour, but she didn’t go inside, but she approached a blind child begging for money near the parlour and placed fifty rupees on its plate. After expressing her noble action, she moved towards the school gracefully. The father who followed to teach, but was taught, by his child’s action. The father stood with pride on observing his child’s attitude and felt as if, an angel had born as daughter.

The child’s actions might be questionable but not her intensions. Great are men who live for others and die for others.

QUOTE: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson