A
father passing by his teenage daughter's bedroom was astonished to see the bed
was nicely made and everything was neat and tidy.
Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently
on the centre of the pillow. It was addressed "Dad". With the worst
premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter with trembling hands:
“Dear Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you, but I'm leaving home.
I had to elope with my new boyfriend Randy because I wanted to avoid a scene
with Mom and you.
I've been finding real passion with Randy and he is so nice to me. I know when
you meet him you'll like him too - even with all his piercing, tattoos, and
motorcycle clothes. But it's not only the passion Dad, I'm pregnant and Randy
said that he wants me to have the kid and that we can be very happy together.
Even though Randy is much older than me (*anyway, 42 isn't so old these days is
it?*), and has no money, really these things shouldn't stand in the way of our
relationship, don't you agree?
Randy has a great CD collection; he already owns a trailer in the woods and has
a stack of firewood for the whole winter. It's true he has other girlfriends as
well but I know he'll be faithful to me in his own way. He wants to have many
more children with me and that's now one of my dreams too.
Randy taught me that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone and he'll be growing
it for us and we'll trade it with our friends for all the cocaine and ecstasy
we want. In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so
Randy can get better; he sure deserves it!!
*Don't worry Dad*, I'm 15 years old now and I know how to take care of myself.
Someday I'm sure we'll be back to visit so you can get to know your
grandchildren.
*Your loving daughter*,
Rosie.
At the bottom of the page were the words, Please Turn Over.
Hands still trembling, her father turned the sheet, and read:
Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at the neighbour's house. I just
wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than my report card
that's in my desk centre drawer. Please sign it and call when it is safe for me
to come home.
*I love you*!
*Your loving daughter*,
Rosie.
J
Just saw this as one of the post in Facebook and that
sparked idea in my small but intelligent mind to write on something.
Few days before, I was listening to “Shri Bhagvat Puran.” One story is that , someday One Rushi visited to one very rich seth’s
home. Rushi was pleased by seth and his wife’s hospitality and gave him two
envelopes and advised him to open one in good time and the other in worst time
and he left.
As time passed by, Rushi and his wife completely forgot
about these envelopes. Suddenly one day, his wife advised him to open one since
the time was running good. The letter in
envelope says, “ It would be also gone”. (Meaning, this time will not run more)Seth and his wife both were
surprised by reading this but they didn’t get the meaning.
Time flies… Seth’s business was not running good. He had
very hard time in his business. Suddenly he had to sell off his assets to
survive. His wife left him. His business got caught in fire. No one stood with
him in his tough time. His home was auctioned to pay off the borrower’s money. He
was broken down. Suddenly he remembered the other envelope that Rushi gave him.
He thought nothing could be worst than this. He opened the other envelope. The letter read “It would be also gone.”
Life is like ocean wave and we are the surfers, surfing the life
waves. We always have the joy of happiness when it goes high and thrilling
experience in tough time. Some people really don’t have the ability to handle both
good and tough time.
Famous Gujarati lyricist and singer ManiRaj Barot ( founder
of "Sandeo" in Gujarati Garba) died because of heart attack in young age. The reason
for heart attack was excessive happiness due to increasing popularity of his
song sanedo internationally. While, so many
(Famous
and celebrity) people have shortened their lives by committing suicide coz
they had the obstacles in their life and they were unable to face the tough
time. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides).
I would’ve also committed suicide already if this will
resolve my current and future obstacles in the life. But, do they really?? No.
Some people lose their “so called values”,( I’ve met lot of people who usually says
big words in front of others to impress but when you actually live with them
for few days or try to know more, you actually get to know the reality of those
people and at that point, you lose trust from yourself to identify people, these people are called dual or multi personality and considering most dangerous, more on these people in next post).
Do the things which they don’t have to and create entertainment for others. J J..
Gandhiji once asked Winston Churchill during independence movement of India, How to face tough
time. Churchill replied; “go back to your religion. Your religion has great
power and values that you've ever thought of.” Its known that Gandhiji usually read The Bhagvad Gita and considers Gita as his second mother.
What I do in my tough time.. I just pray to god. I have ultimate faith in the supremo that whatever he will give me, I'll willingly accept it. he is with me every time. ( As days are passing with my Hanuman Chalisa Sadhna, Every day I get smell of any things associated with Hanuman dada (that would be smell of agarbati, either smell of ghee, lotus flower, sindhur or anything in my car while going to mandir, Its becoming very usual for me.. )
I usually listen/ read stories of Shri Ram bhagwan, Shri Krishna Bhagwan and the other characters from Mahabharta, Ramayan and think that inspite of being god themselves, even if they faced toughest time, then I am nothing. .
Once Shri Krishna Bhagwan told Kunti mata that, Dear Mother, Seems you've forgotten me now since you're having good time. Immediately, Kunti mata apologized and asked Shri Krishna Bhagwan that please give us tough time so that we could never forget you.. ( I think. Krishna Bhagwan took this very seriously..) :)
Nyways, the bottom line is not to get distracted in tough time and go and talk to your wellwisher with a open and innocent heart.. you definatlely come up with some solution in hand.