A Tickle of Love and Care

(Insights about the story “The Carpenter’s Gift”)

Lowering one’s pride doesn’t mean that we are weak. In fact, it is one of the most courageous things that a certain person can do. It is not that easy to admit one’s mistake. It takes a million times to gain a single gut even to try to say sorry to a person. Emotions can blind a person’s heart that can make a total change for a relationship to collapse to pieces.

Revenge cannot put out a fire in a conflagration yet, it only adds up the heat of the tension between two persons.

A mature and a righteous person is the one who accepts his mistakes. He always knows what the clear possible consequences are if he only gives revenge. He do not view pride as a stand to be the higher one to the other. Instead, he lowers his pride in order to have a more harmonious relationship to others.

In connection to the story, as an older brother, it is not good to fight back to a younger brother. By doing such thing, you are only serving as a bad model to him. Instead, the older brother, as a more mature one, he should do the first move to gain back the bond and even to improve it more. For the younger brother, he should not be numb or hard for the older brother for he also tried to fix things up fro both of them and again, it is not that easy. Learn to appreciate small efforts done by the other side.

One thing is for sure; even the hardest and coldest heart can turn into a smiling one by just a tickle of love and care.

Tempests are everywhere. It may pass our ways in any form in unexpected time. But, there is love that bonds any relationship to withstand any destructive forces that will come.