A young mother had a one-year-old baby. As she
was employed as a teacher, a girl was hired to look after the baby
during day time.
...
One evening, as she was approaching her
house, she saw fire engines speeding towards her home. She ran to reach
her house which was on fire. The girl was crying aloud that the baby was
still in the cradle in the burning
house. The fire broke out when she had gone out of the house leaving the
sleeping baby for a while. As the fire was intense, the girl could not
enter the house to rescue the child in time. The fire fighters were
trying their best to put out the blaze.
Without waiting for
even a moment, the mother rushed into the burning house and reached the
cradle. She fought the fire around her with her bare hands. Holding the
child close to her chest, she came out of the raging fire. The child had
only minor injuries as she was rescued in time. But the mother suffered
severe burns. Her hands were badly burnt and she was rushed to the
hospital. She recovered after prolonged treatment in intense pain but
retained wide white patches and permanent deformities on her hands. But
she did not disclose the incident to her daughter even when she grew up
to adolescence.
Then, one day the daughter told her mother,
"Mommy, your hands are really ugly. I do not want to see them." The
mother was shocked. She knew that it was time to reveal everything. She
told her daughter, "Yes, my hands look ugly and repulsive. But once they
were as beautiful as yours. If I had tried to protect their beauty, you
would not have been alive today." She then narrated the whole story.
The daughter was totally upset. She cried and fell down, embracing the
feet of her mother. She went on kissing her mother's hand and told in
tears, "Mommy, you have the most beautiful hands on earth.
No comments:
Post a Comment