“UNEXPECTED”
From the very beginning, the girl’s family objected strongly on her dating this guy. Saying that there’s nothing to do with family background and that the girl will have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him. The girl named Roxanne and the boy named Bogs.
Due to family pressure the couple quarrel very often. Though Roxanne loved Bogs deeply but she always asked him, “How deep is your love for me?”.
As Bogs is not good with his words, this often causes Roxanne to be very upset. With that and the family’s pressure, Roxanne often vents her anger on him. As for him, he only endures it in silence.
After a couple of years, Bogs finally graduated and decided to work in US. Before leaving, he proposed to Roxanne, “I’m not very good with words but all I know is that I love you. If you allow me, I will take care of you for the rest of your life. As for your family, I’ll try my best to talk them round. Will you marry me?”.
The girl agreed, with Bogs’ determination, the family finally gave in and agreed to let them get married. So before he leaves they got married.
After they got married, Bogs started to work in US. Roxanne got pregnant and after nine months, she gave birth to their baby boy named John. John was born even his father was far to them. They still have their communication thru skype or in yahoo mail. When John was around 2 years old, one morning, Roxanne saw a medicine bottle open. She was late for work so she asked the maid to cap the bottle and keep it in the cap board. The maid pre-occupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.
John saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adult in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the maid hurried him to the hospital, where he died. Roxanne was stunned. She was terrified how to face Bogs.
After three days, the father came to the burial and saw the dead body of his child. He looked at his wife uttered just four words.
What do you think were the four words?
Bogs just said, “I love you, Darling.”
The husband totally unexpected reaction is pro-active behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault to the mother. No point in attaching blame. Roxanne has also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment is consolation and sympathy from the husband that is what he gave her.
Sometimes, we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. We missed out some warmth in human relationship in giving each other support. After all, shouldn’t forgiving someone we love with the easiest thing in the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don’t multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding on the forgiveness.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.
my fiction story
You may not be familiar with the time-sweepers. The time-sweepers are the people who sweep up all the time that is lost and wasted. You cannot see them, though if you are in the railway station and think you see something out of the corner of your eye, that will probably be a time-sweeper, cleaning up around the bench you are sitting on. If you were to see them, you would find a small, bluish person with an intent expression, clutching a broom and a mop. The men wear overalls, the women old-fashioned tweed skirts and scarves on their head.
The time-sweepers are present wherever time is being lost or wasted. There are always several in train stations, and at least one in every doctors surgery. The man who has waited so long to propose to his girlfriend that her hair has gone grey, probably has his own personal time-sweeper following him around. The woman who has spent thirty-five loathed years in an estate agents, dreaming of opening a florists, causes the neighbourhood time-sweeper to sigh, and fetch a bigger dustpan.
You should not feel sorry for the time-sweepers, though their work is menial: they are never sick, do not worry that they are in the wrong career, and have excellent working conditions, though what they do for leisure is unknown. They enjoy bank holidays off, which is why, on these days, there seems so much more time than usual. At Christmas and new year, the time-sweepers have a week's holiday. When they return to work in January, they face a vast backlog of time which has been lost, wasted and thrown away over the holidays. It takes them around three weeks to resume normal service, which is why January always seems to last longer than other months.
The time-sweepers have been around forever, though modern life has created wasted time in such large concentrations that in some places the time-sweepers have been forced to industrialise their operations, buying a number of specialised compressing lorries similar to those used by ordinary bin-men. They use these for the largest collections, at prisons and shopping malls, two venues where the tide of wasted time threatens to swamp even the most dedicated operatives.
Were you to ask a time-sweeper, they would tell you one surprising thing: time enjoyed is never time wasted. Cleaning up in a large office full of staggering tedium, the time-sweeper will pass straight by the desk of the woman who is reading a holiday catalogue under the desk, poring over photos of tropical beaches. They will pass by the next desk, where a man is enjoyably wondering what his mother-in-law looks like naked, and stop by the desk of the young man who is counting every minute, and loathing the hours.
You may wonder what happens to the wasted time after it has all been cleaned up. Never fear, the time-sweepers are ardent recyclers. It is collected, packed into large containers, moved to Liverpool docks, loaded onto a ship, and taken to India. There, in a dusty industrial estate somewhere near Bombay, it is cleaned, sorted, and graded. The most toxic and poisoned time – the residues of failed peace negotiations, wrongful imprisonments and truly poisonous marriages, is skimmed off and buried in a tank underneath a disused army base. There, it will take two or three centuries to decay, and become harmless again.
The rest of the time – made up of stuff such as dull meetings, missed appointments, delayed buses and bad nights at the theatre, is cleaned and put back onto a ship, where it is taken to the Guangzhou industrial export processing zone. Here it is compressed and stored, awaiting redistribution. Around twenty percent goes direct to the factories of the export processing zone, which has the world's highest productivity rate. A quarter is bought in hard dollars by the Chinese government. Ten percent of the most concentrated stuff is sold to a cryogenics laboratory in California. Another twenty or so percent is discreetly sold to a variety of rich private clients, mostly old, rich men who have married beautiful young women.
However, the time-sweepers are not in it for profit. The money from these deals pays for their operations, including dusters, bin-bags, overalls and shipping. The rest is distributed to good causes. No-one who gets any extra time has to fill in any forms, or ask for a grant. They are all quite unaware that they are in receipt of assistance. One of these beneficiaries is a shabby and overtired scientist in a crumbling public laboratory outside Novosibirsk, who will be the man to find the vaccine for malaria. Another is a prostitute in a Nairobi slum who has fostered seventeen children, and who, despite twenty years in the business, never falls ill. A third is the Indian taxi-driver in a cramped flat in Toronto, who, in between sending money home to a sick wife and children, is writing what will later be acknowledged as the greatest novel of the century.
Not all the recipients of the time-sweepers' largesse are people. About forty miles outside Timbuktu, a medieval mosque, buried in sand, receives a delivery every decade or so. Somewhere below the floor in the Aegean sea, a Trojan galley is miraculously preserved in mud. Similarly, the time-sweepers gift a little extra time to a temple in Mexico, and preserve a haul of dark-age treasure in a Galway bog.
A certain amount of charitable time is kept back for emergency situations, both small and large. It is parachuted in in times of desperation, and has facilitated peace deals, changed battles, and allowed numerous fathers to make it to the delivery room in time.
The time-sweepers are, by their very nature, a tidy and orderly sort of people. They wish that humans would think more about throwing away this valuable commodity, but don't expect it'll happen any time soon.
There isn't a moral to this story. It's just that if you are planning on throwing away your time, please remember - somebody has to pick it up.