
Photo Courtesy: dellbby
I was walking around in a supermarket when i saw a cashier hand this little boy his money back, the boy couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, ‘I’m sorry, but you don’t have enough money to buy this doll.” The little boy turned to the old woman next to him, ”Granny, are you sure I don’t have enough money?” She replied, ”You know that you don’t have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.” Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly. The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to. ‘It’s the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.’ I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry. But he replied to me sadly. ‘No, Santa Claus can’t bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.’ His eyes were so sad while saying this, ‘My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.” My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said, ‘I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall.’ Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself. He was laughing. He then told me ‘I want mommy to take my picture with her so she won’t forget me.’ ‘I love my mommy and I wish she didn’t have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister.’ Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly. I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. ‘Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll!” OK’ he said, ‘I hope I do have enough.’ I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money. The little boy said, ‘Thank you God for giving me enough money!’ Then he looked at me and added, ‘I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me!” ‘I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn’t dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose.” ‘My mommy loves white roses.’ A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket. I finished my shopping in a totally different state of mind from when I started. I couldn’t get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local newspaper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl. The little girl died right away and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma. Was this the family of the little boy? Two days after this encounter with the little boy I read in the newspaper that the young woman had passed away. I couldn’t stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was for people to see and make last wishes before her burial. She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest. I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed forever. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine, and in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009
“****..NEED KTA!”-
an alrming text from one significant part of my past.
why?does he want?what happened?is he okei?or did he finally realized his lost?
way back 2007 there was this guy whom a girl loved,
he changed the way this girl percieve life,
Most girls of age 18 are all lady like but this girl is one of the boys
tough, loud and wacky
but the moment she fell for this guy,
this tomboy turned into a princess
everything seems so perfect.
it came to a point that you can’t even distinguish dreams from reality
he promised everything most of the girls would want to hear
it seems so real that the girl didn’t even realize its just a dream.
then this day come, he ended it.
dreams would never come to life
she has to wake up before its too late
but the time wore out, she had fallen so deep
that she can’t even save her self from the pit.
the guy woke the girl from her dreams,
he tried to pull her out the pit,
but everytime he does the girl got more stucked
Finally the day came that the girl had the courage to climb out the pit
and bring her self back to reality out from her broken dreams.
she then realized the reality that awaits her for a long time,
it had offered her so much happiness than the one those foolish dreams brought her.
REALITY CHECK:
-whatever that text means the girl doesn’t care anymore
-the girl have had enough of the guys lies and tactics
-the girl is happier now and she is contented with the guy she is with right now.
he may not be a prince, but still he’s been working so hard
to treat this girl as a princess and to bring back those dreams
that the ghost of the past haunted for a long time.
in many relationships that don’t end in marriage (well actually even then),
there usually comes a time when you have to say goodbye.
the two of you have shared memories together that when you look back upon,
you will either laugh or cry.
but whatever that memory might be,once a relationship ends,
it’s time to say “thanks” or “no thanks” for everything and move on.
but somewhere along the line,
there’s always the “let’s remain friends” that compromise many breakups.
it’s the much gentler way of saying,
“hey, you’re not that bad.
it’s not you.it’s me.
but look,i still want to be friends with you.”
REALITY CHECK:
can you be good friends with your ex?
let’s face it.
whenever there’s a breakup,it’s never mutual.
one person is the one that causes or initiates the breakup and is labeled “heartbreaker”,
while the other person is left hurting and dwelling on the breakup for weeks.
at some time even the heartbreaker could hurt too,
but usually the one who initiated the breakup moves on faster.
for example.
although my ex and i agreed that we would be good friends,we’re really not.
i get a greeting on my birthday and during the holidays
but those are about the only times we communicate.
so why can’t ex’s remain friends?
here’s some reasons i’ve read on why the can’t:
• there’s always a heartbreaker and the heartbreakee.
• bitterness comes into play. an ex can pretend to be a friend, but deep down they’d rather see you and your current partner dead.
• jealousy. seriously - who really likes seeing their ex being with someone else anyway?
CAN YOU BE GOOD FRIENDS WITH YOUR EX?
you guys tell me.
(Source: loseyourpride)
ABOUT
Following