If you want to see pure and innocent love, look into a child’s heart. His can do wonders that even the most intelligent adult couldn’t think of doing.
It was Christmas. The air was filled with the sweet aroma of giving and sharing. Homes were prepared, parties were set, and gifts were readied. In one of the households, a little boy hadn’t any penny to spend for that prized gift. On the table was a beautiful Christmas wrapper in gold hue. Thinking only of its magnificence, he took it. A little later, his father came looking for that special paper. When he couldn’t find it, he started to feel annoyed as it was not an ordinary one. As he interrogated his wife, the boy meekly came out from his room with a present wrapped painstakingly; but nevertheless wonderful because of its glistening wrapper in gold. All his father could do was smile and feel proud of his son. Mother and father were excited as they opened the gift, only to find an empty box of shoes.
His father felt infuriated, speaking of the waste his son had made with the valued golden wrapper. With teary eyes and bent head, the boy explained that it wasn’t meant to be empty. It was instead full of his hugs and kisses which he blew into it. The awe-stricken father looked at his son, smiled, and hugged him lovingly, recollecting how foolish he had been to choose a thing over his son. In that moment, the little boy taught his father how sweet and pure a child’s love is, which, apart from everyone else’s is opposite the materialism that the world offers.
His father felt infuriated, speaking of the waste his son had made with the valued golden wrapper. With teary eyes and bent head, the boy explained that it wasn’t meant to be empty. It was instead full of his hugs and kisses which he blew into it. The awe-stricken father looked at his son, smiled, and hugged him lovingly, recollecting how foolish he had been to choose a thing over his son. In that moment, the little boy taught his father how sweet and pure a child’s love is, which, apart from everyone else’s is opposite the materialism that the world offers.
Too often we neglect the true meaning of love that is in the eyes of a child. A child can open doors where genuine love is waiting to be tapped, widening as we listen to his heart. We grow old, but unless we take hold of that innocent and altruistic child in our heart, we’ll soon be part of the growing multitude of callous individuals. If we are serious in creating a happy world, we can always look into the child within us.
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