For use and for love

While a man was polishing his new car, his six-year-old son picked up a stone and scratched lines on the side of the car.  In anger, the man took the child’s hand and hit it many times, not realising he was using a wrench. 

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures.  When the child saw his father ….. with his painful eyes, he asked, ‘Dad, when will my fingers grow back?’

The man was so hurt and speechless.  He went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.  Devastated by his own actions, he sat in front of that car and looked at the scratches.  It says ‘LOVE YOU DAD.’

The next day, the man committed suicide.

Thanks to a colleague who shared this with me.

Friends, learn.  Learn to love.  If you feel lonely and hurt, take a step back and put these lines into your heart.  Carry them your whole life.

Things are to be used and people are to be loved.

If you look around, especially when your heart is broken, you may sense something is wrong with this world.  Yes, maybe.  When you look around, you may find that this world may get things wrong. 

People are used and things are loved. 

Don’t worry.  We believe in mirrors.  Treat people with heart and you will get the same in return. 

The Lord of the Rings

Once again, the forgotten treasure has come alive. 

If it is science that keeps the Man progressing, it is literature that keeps the Man’s heart safe.

So inspiring are the many quotes.  Can’t imagine how addicted I will become.  Should I find some time to borrow the books again, I will not be able to stop reading them.

Many messages are embedded.  I am not here to tell, but allow them to be noticed.

“Many that live deserve death.  Some that die deserve life.  Can you give it to them, Frodo?  Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement.  Even the very wise cannot see all ends.  My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill…The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.” (and later the pity of Frodo …)

“I wish the Ring had never come to me.”

“So do all who live to see such times.  But that is not for them to decide.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

“When the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.”

“Those were in the stories…….”

“Even if you were too small to understand why.  But I think, Mr Frodo, I do understand. I know now.  Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t.  They kept going because they were holding on to something.”

“What are we holding on to, Sam?”

“That there’s some good in this world, Mr Frodo.  And it’s worth fighting for.”

Galadriel, ‘To bear The Ring of the Power is to be alone. This task was appointed to you.  You must find a way. If you do not find a way, no one will.’

I loved them the first time I read them in the books.  I was moved to tears and couldn’t help sobbing.  I love these lines as much as I did, years ago.  Only I had forgotten them.  Once again, something that should not have been forgotten was forgotten.  Once again, they are remembered and will be kept in the memory, for many days, if not forever.