RENUNGAN PAGI

Saya kira petikan di bawah baik, untuk sama-sama kita renungkan.

 

Mungkin selama ini, kita secara tak sedar menjadi terlalu protactive terhadap anak, atas alasan,  tidak mahu mereka susah seperti kita dulu.

 

Tetapi saya kira, andai sesekali kesusahan dan keperitan kita dapat dikongsi dengan anak,  pasti mereka lebih menghargai/bersyukur dengan apa yang mereka miliki dan akan mudah menyelami keperitan  orang lain, lalu menghargainya.

 

 

***One, young, academically excellent person went to apply for a
managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview.  The director who did the last
interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic
achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school
until the postgraduate research.  He never had a year when he did not
score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?"

The youth answered "none".

The director asked,  " Was it your father who paid for your school fees?"

The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was one year old.
It was my mother who paid for my school fees."

The director asked, " Where did your mother work?"
The youth answered, "My mother worked as a clothes cleaner.

The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a
pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked, " Have you ever helped your mother wash the
clothes before?"

The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to study and
read more books.
Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me."

The director said, "I have a request.  When you go back today, go and
clean your mother's hands and then see me tomorrow morning."

The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high.  When he
went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands.
His mother felt strange,  but with mixed feelings, she showed her
hands to her son.

The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly.  His tears fell as he did
that.  It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were
so wrinkled and that there were so many bruises in her hands.  Some
bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when they were
cleaned with water.

This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of
hands that washed the clothes every day to enable him to pay the
school fee.  The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the
mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his
future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly
washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes and asked, " Can
you tell me what  you did and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hands, and also finished
cleaning all the remaining clothes.'

The Director asked, " Please tell me your feelings."

The youth said,
Number 1, I know now the meaning of appreciation. Without my mother,
there would not be the successful me today.
Number 2, by working together and helping my mother, only now I
realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.
Number 3, I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family
relationship.

The director said, " This is what I am looking for in my new  manager.
I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a
person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a
person who would not put money as his only goal in life.  Son,you are
hired."

 

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect
of his subordinates.  Every employee worked diligently and as a team.
The company's performance improved tremendously.

A child, who has been over protected and habitually given whatever he
or she  wanted, would develop the entitlement mentality and would
always put himself first.  He would be ignorant of his parent's
efforts.  When he starts work, he assumes that every person must
listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the
sufferings of his employees and would always blame others.  This kind
of person, may be good academically and may be successful for a while,
but eventually would not feel a sense of achievement.  He will grumble
and be full of hatred and fight for more.
If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love
or are we destroying the kid instead?*

You can let your kid live in a big house, eat  good meals, learn
piano, watch a big screen TV.  But when you are cutting grass, please
let him experience it.  After a meal, let him wash his plates and
bowls together with his brothers and sisters.  It is not because you
do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love
him in the right way.  You want him to understand, no matter how rich
his parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother
of that young man . The most important thing is your kid learns how to
appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the
ability to work with others to get things done.

 

 

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