When Hearts Embrace Hearts-11 | The Rocks of Memory!

When Hearts Embrace Hearts-11

The Rocks of Memory!

An old volleyball star! She is 82 years now. During her college days, she met with an accident while in Delhi for a tournament. Her uterus got seriously damaged, and had to be surgically removed. How much that girl would have aggrieved? In a moment of agony, one of her aunt taunted and said, “Thank God! It’s good. At least now you won’t bring bad name to the family.” 

Even today, after sixty years, those words of her aunt haunt her. Her mind gets unsettled and she breaks down hysterically. 

Don’t actions of someone, words someone uttered, attitudes shown by somebody remain sore like unhealed wounds? Yes! Feel they don’t deserve forgiveness ever. But, forgiveness is something which boosts its value if granted to those who don’t deserve it. Hence, let’s pardon them, forget their mistakes, and only think about them. 

Paul Warfield Tibbet, a Brigadier General of United States Air Force, who flew the plane and switched on the button to drop the atom bombs over Hiroshima during World War II, wasn’t aware of the magnitude of the disaster. His superior ordered. And he just followed it. About 1.5 lakh people perished. As he came to know about the ramification of his action, he lost sleep. He attempted suicide by slicing his veins. He hit his own head with a hard metal.

Just think about those who afflicted distress upon us. They may be repenting their mistakes. Those small people wouldn’t have the courage or broad mind to come to you and seek your forgiveness. They may be waiting for us to say, “Its okay.”When one person pardons, two hearts attain peace. “You forgive those on earth, the One in the heavens will forgive you,” goes a Prophetic saying.

The house owner is sitting on his porch. Suddenly, a man enters the gate and spoils the flower pots crushing them under his feet. The plants are expensive. And, all of it stood bloomed with flowers. And, then this callous act...! The house owner couldn’t tolerate it. He ran towards him, hit him and tried to push him out of the gate. And then suddenly, he withdrew his hands. He didn’t do anything further. And it was the house owner who sought forgiveness from the man who destroyed his plants! The man was blind. He had accidentally entered the gate. Poor chap!

That night, the house owner told his children, “Never hurt anyone who destroys our garden. Sometimes, they may be blind” 

Yes, sometimes, those who spoil our happiness might be blind. They may have committed it naively. Let’s forgive their blindness! We have to live. If the rocks of memory get accumulated and jammed, life won’t flow smoothly!