Love others even if you don't like them .. ( Repost)

Love others even if you don't like them !!!!!

Once a story was being told by our school Principal.It was like this...

A kindergarten teacher decides to let her class play a game. The teacher tells each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.

Days after days passed by and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended....

The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?". The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they went.

Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???"

Moral of the story

Throw away hatred for anyone from your heart to avoid carrying that burden for a lifetime.

Forgiving others is the best attitude to take!

Love others even if you don't like them.

True love is not loving a perfect person

but loving an imperfect person perfectly

This stinky potato exercise is too good for anyone. In the end, it is the hater that is stinking up the world. The thing about stinky potatoes is that once you have thrown away the smelly bag of hate, the smell is still up your nose for a very long time. You really do need a new wind.

I have read somewhere that there in church has a process called, "Gold Key." To "Gold Key" a person is to pray for them almost non-stop when their behavior is a burden to our happiness. It's hard to pray and hate in the same breath. It brings into perspective that we are all connected in our spiritual life, so carrying ill will is carrying pain against ourselves.The moment we discuss resentments we draw many examples to clarify them.

What are the resentments... 

On this great writer says:"...All those who harbor resentments are sick with an emotional cancer that will not be healed. Unlike most cancers, however, this one is contagious. Because of the attitudes they create, resentments infect, or at the least affect, entire families and even whole nations with an evil growth that metastasises..."

"...Resentments are the offspring of a collaboration between our fearful and judgmental natures. They are our little demons. So it is we who are responsible for them. They are not someone else's problems-resentments are our problems.

Besides, the vast majority of resentments do little or no harm to those being resented. They tend, instead, to eat the packages they come in, like a cancer that spreads and infects other heathy attitudes. They give whomever or whatever we resent power over our emotions and subsequently power over us. Yet there are souls so misguided that they think the outward machismo of resentments empowers them. What a pitiful cover-up for the fears that motivate their angers..."

"...Resentments, however, are tough to overcome completely. Many of us truly have suffered grievous wrongs. But harboring a resentment over it only intensifies and prolongs the pain. We unwittingly continue to punish ourselves for the wrongs of others..."

"...All resentments stew in some type of fear, which bubbles to the surface as anger or self-pity. Resentments are the boiling manifestation of evils in our character. They provide the heat that cooks our malcontent..."

"...Even if we don't really mean it, praying for those who persecute us is a good way to ease the pangs of resentments. With prayer we can keep those demons locked away. But resentments will not vacate the inner rooms of our minds unless we renovate those inner sanctums of our psyche in such a way that it leaves no air for such demons to breath.

The purpose of Phase Three is to remove our resentments and to become emotionally even with the world. This is the grandest enigma of the Phases. In a mysterious and paradoxical way, removing the guilt we assign to others evaporates the guilt we assume. No resentment can live in a room without the ventilation of guilt-given and/or received..."

This analogy is well known in the "natural medicine" world."Whatever the mind arbhors-- the body will manifest." Indeed many a disease is caused by hate that has been held too long in people's heart and minds. Hatred is like pouring a quart of acid in your stomach, so as you would not dump it in your car's motor --why would you do it to your body.?

And finally I like Ocar Wilde's witicism when he wrote "Always forgive your enemies for nothing will annoy them as much!"

Still I can remember this story very well and word to word but ..how many of us really apply all these moral stories in our day to day life..?We teach our children..we tell them a story and at the end the moral substance also....How much we get into that character or instead of giving an example, becomes an example....?