Positive Story: Real Life Example of Non Violence
Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story as an example of non-violence in parenting: …….
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day
conference, and I jumped at the chance. …….
When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, ‘I will meet you
here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.’ After hurriedly
completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I
got so engrossed in a John Wayne double feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
“He anxiously asked me, ‘Why were you late?’ I was so ashamed of
telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, ‘The car wasn’t ready, so I had to wait,’ not realising that he had already called the garage.
When he caught me in the lie, he said: ‘There’s something wrong in the
way I brought you up that didn’t give you the confidence to tell me the
truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I’m going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.’ So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn’t leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again.
I often think about that episode and wonder if he had punished me, the
way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at
all. I don’t think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on
doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so
powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of
non-violence.”
Very Funny Quotations With Pictures
CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco
rolled in paper
with fire at one end
and a fool at the other!
MARRIAGE:
It’s an agreement wherein a man loses
his bachelor degree and a woman gains
her master
LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information
from the notes of the lecturer
to the notes of students
without passing through the minds
of either
CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man
multiplied by the
number present
definition of compromise
COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing
a cake in such a way that
everybody believes
he got the biggest piece
TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which
masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!
DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes
before marriage
CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on
ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel
you are going to feel
a feeling
you have never felt before
CLASSIC:
A book
which people praise,
but never read
SMILE:
A curve
that can set
a lot of things straight!
OFFICE:
A place
where you can relax
after your strenuous
home life
YAWN:
The only time
when some married men
ever get to open
their mouth
ETC:
A sign
to make others believe
that you know
more than
you actually do
COMMITTEE:
Individuals
who can do
nothing individually
and sit to decide
that nothing can be done
together
EXPERIENCE:
The name
men give
to their
Mistakes
ATOM BOMB:
An invention
to bring an end
to all
inventions
PHILOSOPHER:
A fool
who torments himself
during life,
to be spoken of
when dead
DIPLOMAT:
A person
who tells you
to go to hell
in such a way
that you actually look forward
to the trip
OPPORTUNIST:
A person
who starts taking bath
if he
accidentally falls
into a river
OPTIMIST:
A person
who while falling
from EIFFEL TOWER
says in midway
“SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!”
PESSIMIST:
A person
who says that
O is the last letter
in ZERO,
Instead of the first letter
in OPPORTUNITY
MISER:
A person
who lives poor
so that
he can die RICH!
FATHER:
A banker
provided by
nature
CRIMINAL:
A guy
no different
from the other,
unless he gets caught
BOSS:
Someone
who is early
when you are late
and late
when you are early
POLITICIAN:
One who
shakes your hand
before elections
and your Confidence
Later
DOCTOR:
A person
who kills
your ills
by pills,
and kills you
by his bills!