A boy was  born to a couple after eleven years of marriage.
They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of  their
eyes. When the boy was around  two years old, one morning  
the husband saw  a medicine bottle open. He was late for
office  so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it
in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen  
totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully  went to the bottle
fascinated by its color and  drank it all. It happened to  
be a poisonous  medicine meant for  adults in small  dosages.
When the child collapsed the  mother hurried him to the
hospital. He died. The mother was stunned.  She was terrified
how she was going to face her  husband.

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw  the
dead child, he looked at his  wife and uttered just five words.  
 

QUESTIONS :  

1. What  were the five words ?

2. What is the implication of this story?  
 

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ANSWER  :
 
The husband just said "I am with you  Darling".
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a  proactive behavior. The child is dead. He  can never be brought back
to life. 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 had also lost her only  child.
What she needed at that moment was consolation and  sympathy
from the husband. That is  what he gave her. If everyone can  
look at life  with this kind of perspective, there would be
much fewer problems in the world. "A journey of a  thousand
miles begins with a single  step." Take off all your envies,  
jealousies,  unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you
will find things are  actually not as difficult as you think.
 
 

MORAL OF THE STORY
 

This story is really worth reading. Sometimes we spend  time
in asking who is  responsible or whom to blame, whether in a
relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this  
way we miss out some warmth in human relationship. 

Know that what your loss or misfortune could also fall on someone else;

Know that what the loss or misfortune of someone else could also fall on you;

Know that we are all companions to one another in the sea of samsara;

That is what compassion means to me.