06 October 2010

Love Are



A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.


The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag 

containing a few potatoes.

Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates,

So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag

will depend on the number of people he/she hates




So when the day came,

Every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people 

he/she hated.




Some had 2 potatoes;

Some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.

The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in 

the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.





Days after days passed by,

And the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let

out by the rotten potatoes.

Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. 

After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had 

finally ended



The teacher asked:

"How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?”

The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the

 trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and 

smelly potatoes wherever they go.






Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. 


The teacher said:

"This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for 

somebody inside your heart.

The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it 

with you wherever you go.

If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week,

can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your 

heart for your lifetime???"




Moral of the story:





Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will

 not carry sins for a lifetime.

Forgiving others is the best attitude

To take!

Love others even if you don't like them





True love is not loving a perfect perfect person

But loving an imperfect person perfectly



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Anonymous said...Reply To This Comment

Good lesson!( Unrelated comment) In English even simple dislikes will be told as "I hate """. Thats part of the common language. But in Sinhalese there are phrases like "mama kemathi ne""". Therefore the word "hate" has more weight in singhalese than in English.

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