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The Little Boy
By peace | October 20, 2006
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
There was once a very active boy who fell and broke his leg. He could run again in the spring, the doctors said, but only if he stayed in bed for an entire month and kept his leg still.
At first the boy fought the rule, but he found that the more he thought about things he couldn’t do, the more tired and angry he felt. His parents put in a phone by his bed and friends called every day.
He’d never much liked talking on the phone, but he felt better when they called. He wrote letters and got replies, and was surprised at what fun it was.
Usually, he didn’t have time to write letters. He learned to play chess and began to enjoy reading.
His days were slower and quieter than he’d been used to, but he learned a month really isn’t a very long time.
When spring came, he was running again, a little more joyfully than before.
When we can learn to accept our troubles, we find, like the boy, that they are just packages in which new growth and discoveries are wrapped.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. ~Lady Holland
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