This made me cry and think

[GREEN-MOUNTAIN]

FAMILY


>I ran into a stranger as he passed by,


>Oh excuse me please" was my reply.


>He said, "Please excuse me too;


>I wasn't watching for you."


>We were very polite, this stranger and I.


>We went on our way and we said good-bye.


>But at home a different story is told,


>How we treat our loved ones, young and old.


>Later that day, cooking the evening meal, My son stood beside me very
still.


>When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.


>"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.


>He walked away, his little heart broken.


>I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.


>While I lay awake in bed,


small voice came to me and said


>"While dealing with a stranger,common courtesy you use,


>but the family you love, you seem to abuse.


>Go and look on the kitchen floor,


>You'll find some flowers there by the door.


>Those are the flowers he brought for you.


>He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.


>He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise, you never saw the


>tears that filled his little eyes."


>By this time, I felt very small,


>And now my tears began to fall.


>I quietly went and knelt by his bed;


>"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.


>"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"


>He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.


>I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.


>I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."


>I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today; I shouldn't
have
yelled at you that way."


>He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.


>I love you anyway."


>I said, "Son, I love you too,


>and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."


>FAMILY


>Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are
working
for could easily replace us in a matter of days.


>But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their
lives.


>And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into
our
own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think?


>So what is behind the story?


Do you know what the word FAMILY means?


>FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU

[T.Sultan]

First , I'd really like to thank you for the lovely and expressive topics you post in this section of the forum.


Dear brother,

You're right we should get close to every member of our family. In brief , a guy without a family suffers a lot.

[Meant To be]

Udoubtedly, totally right


We have to be close to our families, so our lives become more than great


And the abbreviation of the word " FAMILY " just wonderful


Thanks brother for sharing such wonderful words with us

God bless ya, Amen

[enigma]

We should never take anything for granted in life even our own families

Thanks brother for the impressive post

[Donia-Ajeeba]

Thanks brother for those touching topics

Sure I read them once and twice

discovering that we all - without thinking - do that

to our dear familiy members

[Shyguy]

OH MY GOD very lovely and touching and daggonit you made me cry too(it seems like 7 outa 9 subjects i read i find people crying after they read them,as i do too..we're all humans and that's our nature, to connect with with other true and storng emotions)

i'd like to comment just a bit about what our sister enigma said she said "We should never take anything for granted in life EVEN our own families" dear sis i'd say '''ESPECIALLY''' OUR FAMILES,don't you agree???