We human
being are very grateful to have 5 fingers. Yes! I said 5 fingers, why? Because it helped us too understand the philosophy
of life. Ok, take a look at this question and if you’re a parent ask yourself
why do you always want to buy the best gift for your children.
Have you
any idea why?
Simply
because you loved them and not because they always listen to you etc. if I can
say it plainly, maybe if we are to compare the true factors about how much we
loved our children against they listening to us, it would be love denying the
fact of 70 – 90% chance for our children not listening to us every day.
However,
we still loved them and still want the best for them.
Ok, let me
take you back to the 5 fingers and its significant teaching in our lives and
having said that, I will start from each fingers and their representation in
our lives.
1. Thumb - Gift for our children
2. Pointer - Children
always complaining
3. Tallman - Our
children’s ignorance
4. Ringman - Our Love
for our children
5. Littleman - Our
children
Ok, now
that you know their significant role in the story, let me help you put it
altogether, so you can see the clear picture of their representation and
meaning in this story.
During
Christmas and New Year, we always provide presents (gifts) for our children, but
remember gift is not something that one deserve to have just because of his
obedience or whatever. But in fact, it is something freely given to show appreciation.
So did we the parents, we provide gift for our children freely, because we
appreciate them as they are.
Most of
our problem parents are from our children’s complaints. Sometimes with just
simple things such as clothes, where we select clothes for our children and
they just simply don’t want to wear it, because they like to wear something
else. At the end of the day, the only easiest way out that problem is to
compromise.
However,
this is another problem, whenever we tell our children to do this and that we will
find ourselves that often times nothing has been done, since our children in
most cases ignored what we said and decides to go about their own business. At
the end of the day we end up angry and frustrated.
We will
call our children and start screaming at them, but because of love, it doesn’t
matter how mad you are and how angry you think you are at that time, but once
you see tears falling from your child’s eye, it will break your heart.
In other
words, it will melt you, because the child is your whole world, and losing him/her
is something that nothing in the entire universe can replace forever.
Our
children will never understand that, until they grow older and then they will be
in our shoes, and they will understand our situation.
Until
then, let us not give up in doing ‘good’ to our children as they deserve our
love.
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