Tuesday, March 23, 2010

True Love


This is a true story that happened in Japan.

In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan tears open the wall.

Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.
When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there
because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this,
feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail, it
was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.

What happened?

The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall
partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling.
Then he wondered how this lizard could have survived for 10 years without
moving a single step--since its foot was nailed!

So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and
what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came,
appears another lizard, with food in its mouth.

Ahh! He was stunned and deeply touched. For the lizard that was stuck by
nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...

Such love, such beautiful love! Such love happened even with these tiny
creatures ... What can love do? It can do wonders! Love can perform
miracles!
Imagine! it has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without
giving up hope on its partner.

Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a
brilliant mind can't.

I was touched when I heard this story and started wondering about
relationships between family members, friends, spouses, brothers, sisters.

As information and communication technology advances, our access to
information becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human beings
. . . is it getting closer as well?

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