Don't Judge

             A cruise ship met with an accident at sea. On the ship was a couple who, after having made their way to the life boat, they realized that there was only space for one person left. At this moment, the man pushed the women behind him and jumped onto the lifeboat himself. The lady stood on the sinking ship and shouted one sentence to her husband. 

           The teacher stopped and asked, “what do you think she shouted?” most of the students excitedly answered, “I hate you! I was blind!”. Now, the teacher noticed a boy who was silent throughout, she got him to answer and he replied, “teacher, I believed she would have shouted- take care of our child!”.

                  The teacher was surprised, asking “have you heard this story before?”. The boy shook his head,” Nope, but that was what my mom told my dad before she died to a disease”. The teacher lamented, “The answer is right”. The cruise sunk, the man went home and brought up their daughter single-handedly. Many years later after the death of the man, their daughter found his diary while tidying his belongings.

              It turns out that when parents went onto the cruise ship, the mother was already diagnosed with a terminal illness. At the critical moment, the father rushed to the only chance of survival. He wrote in his diary, “How I wished to sink to the bottom of the ocean with you, but for the sake of our daughter, I can only let you lie forever below the sea alone”. The story is finished, the class was silent. The teacher knows the students have understood.

           The moral of the story, that of the good and the evil in the world, there are many complications behind them which are hard to understand. Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.