I COULD NOT STOP MY TEARS FROM FLOWING AND HOPEFULLY YOU TOO WOULD EXPERIENCE THE SAME EMOTIONAL OUTBURST, IF GIVEN A SERIOUS THOUGHT TO THE STORY AND READ SILENTLY IN A STILL AND UNDISTURBED ROOM, AFTER ALL WE ALL HAVE THE BEATING HEART TO FEEL THE PAIN OF OTHERS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THERE WAS ONCE A FEEBLE OLD WOMAN WHOSE LOVING HUSBAND DIED. SO SHE WENT TO LIVE WITH HER SON AND HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. EVERY DAY, THE WOMANS SIGHT GREW WORSE AND HER HEARING GREW WORSE. SOME DAYS HER HANDS TREMBLED SO BADLY THE PEAS ON HER PLATE ROLLED ONTO THE FLOOR AND THE SOUP RAN FROM HER CUP. HER SON AND HIS WIFE COULDNT HELP BUT BE ANNOYED AT THE MESS SHE MADE AND ONE DAY THEY SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. SO THEY SET UP A LITTLE TABLE FOR THE OLD WOMAN IN A CORNER NEXT TO THE BROOM CLOSET AND MADE HER EAT ALL HER MEALS THERE, ALONE. SHE WOULD LOOK AT THEM AT MEALTIMES WITH HER TEAR-FILLED EYES FROM ACROSS THE ROOM, BUT THEY HARDLY TALKED TO HER WHILE THEY ATE, EXCEPT TO SCOLD HER FOR DROPPING A SPOON AND A FORK. ONE EVENING, JUST BEFORE DINNER, THE LITTLE GIRL WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR PLAYING WITH HER BUILDING BLOCKS. WHAT ARE YOU MAKING? HER FATHER ASKED EARNESTLY. IM BUILDING A LITTLE TABLE FOR YOU AND MOTHER, SHE SAID, SO YOU CAN EAT BY YOURSELVES IN THE CORNER SOMEDAY WHEN I GET BIG. THE FATHER AND MOTHER WERE MOVED TO SILENCE FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY. THEN THEY STARTED TO WEEP. IN THAT INSTANT THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE NATURE OF THEIR ACTIONS AND THE SADNESS THEY HAD CAUSED. THAT NIGHT THEY LED THE OLD WOMAN BACK TO HER RIGHTFUL PLACE AT THE BIG DINNER TABLE AND FROM THAT DAY ON SHE ATE ALL HER MEALS WITH THEM. AND WHEN A LITTLE MORSEL OF FOOD FELL OFF THE TABLE OR A FORK STRAYED ONTO THE FLOOR, NOBODY SEEMED TO MIND ANYMORE
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:32:16 +0000
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