Once a Junior School teacher
asked her students to bring some potatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each
potato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates. Like this, the
number of potatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate. On a
decided day, the children brought their potatoes well addressed. Some had two,
some had three and some even had five.
The teacher said they have to
carry these potatoes with them everywhere they go for a week. As the days
passed the children started to complain about the spoiled smell that started
coming from these potatoes. Also some students who had many potatoes complained
that it was very heavy to carry them all around.
The children got rid of this assignment after a week, when it
got over. The teacher asked, "How did you feel in this one week?" The
children discussed their problems about the smell and the weight. Then the
teacher said, "this situation is very similar to what you carry in your
heart when you don't like some people. This hatred makes your heart unhealthy and
you carry that hatred in your heart everywhere you go. If you cannot bear the
smell of spoiled potatoes for a week, imagine the impact of the hatred
that you carry though out your life, on your heart?
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