Do you recognize this child?
He is Moshe - the only surviving child of Rivka and Rabbi Holtzberg who were recently gunned down by terrorists in Bombay. (I won’t call it Mumbai but Bombay that belongs to everyone!)
The child is inconsolable back in Israel.
A two year old constantly looking for a mom who would never come back. A mom who would just remain an elusive angel for the rest of the child’s life.
Fortunately he has a whole nation full of empathy behind him. But that can not win him his mom back!
Look at him again and think. How would he cope with the loss? What would this child be in future?
Now turned inwards, and look into your own miseries.
We often tend to feel that our own miseries have been the worst. The “Why me” question tends to creep up every time something befalls upon us.
In reality your own suffering or illness can indeed be a major one. May be while I am writing this you are about to have a recurrent, stubborn tumor removed by a neurosurgeon. May be this means, diverting family resources while you have an unmarried daughter and an unemployed son. I can imagine how sometimes you wished, things end for you or may be the secured job you have had, now goes to your this son in question, who has not found a job despite an impressive CV.
A friend of mine calls this tendency to consider your own plight the most troublesome one, a kind of mass masochism that prevails, whereby deep inside you feel happy to be in the situation that is by no means an enviable one. An example would be, behaving as one at the receiving end when someone has written you off in a relationship. “I did such and such thing for him / her, and this is what I got in return”, is a thought that would be instantly gratifying but would do little in long run.
Accepting your miseries would on the other hand empower you to handle them.
The void in Moshe’s life will always there even with a nation behind him. But little Moshe will have his own remarkable journey to have his own tryst with destiny!
Amen
The child is inconsolable back in Israel.
A two year old constantly looking for a mom who would never come back. A mom who would just remain an elusive angel for the rest of the child’s life.
Fortunately he has a whole nation full of empathy behind him. But that can not win him his mom back!
Look at him again and think. How would he cope with the loss? What would this child be in future?
Now turned inwards, and look into your own miseries.
We often tend to feel that our own miseries have been the worst. The “Why me” question tends to creep up every time something befalls upon us.
In reality your own suffering or illness can indeed be a major one. May be while I am writing this you are about to have a recurrent, stubborn tumor removed by a neurosurgeon. May be this means, diverting family resources while you have an unmarried daughter and an unemployed son. I can imagine how sometimes you wished, things end for you or may be the secured job you have had, now goes to your this son in question, who has not found a job despite an impressive CV.
A friend of mine calls this tendency to consider your own plight the most troublesome one, a kind of mass masochism that prevails, whereby deep inside you feel happy to be in the situation that is by no means an enviable one. An example would be, behaving as one at the receiving end when someone has written you off in a relationship. “I did such and such thing for him / her, and this is what I got in return”, is a thought that would be instantly gratifying but would do little in long run.
Accepting your miseries would on the other hand empower you to handle them.
The void in Moshe’s life will always there even with a nation behind him. But little Moshe will have his own remarkable journey to have his own tryst with destiny!
Amen
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1 comment:
its heart wrenching,
i have gone thru this stoey n number of times, and every time i have cried. i dont know what to say.
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