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Jimmy is about to finish high school, he is so happy and at last he could has his dream fulfill owning a car of his own as promised by his father, never mind if it’s a second hand car. Jimmy father enthusiastically joining him to go all over the dealers in town to look for his dream car.

On his graduation day, Jimmy was so happy and rushing back home to have a feel and drive of his dream car. On reaching home, the car porch was empty, may be it was hiding some where,he thought.Entering his house, Jimmy’s father smilingly walked toward Jimmy and told him, “Son this will be the perfect gift for your graduation.” Handed over, Jimmy saw a Bible with gold plated edge. A sudden rush of disappointment and anger get over to Jimmy head, “What is he trying to do, he knew I wanted a car!” Jimmy storm out of the house and never come back.

Thirty years later, Jimmy received a message that his old man had died and he went back to his home town attending his father funeral. Going back to his old house, nothing seems to change, he walk into his room, it was kept exactly the same as the day he left the house thirty years ago. His bed, his favorite postal, the furniture and Jimmy spotted one thing extra, it was the Bible his father gave him the day he graduated. Jimmy can never forget that day when he had the biggest disappointment of his life

Picking up the Bible, the memory of his father come back and Jimmy remember the old good days he had with his father but that very day, ruined it all. Jimmy slowing opening up the Bible and flip through, and he spotted one thing, it was a check. A check with the exact amount on the cost of the car he wanted dated on his graduation day. Jimmy suddenly understood what he father was trying to do, but it’s all too late.

Never Let Your Anger Rule Over Your Heart, and if you have something to say to someone, do it now, don’t wait. Time wait for no one. Don’t live to regret about it.

5 Comments Already

marydane Said,

July 20th, 2008 @7:34 pm

This is such a great story and insight. I do hate my father sometimes (as a teenager) if he doesn’t give me what I want, but I don’t get to the point of not talking to him very long. Although sometimes I really find it hard to say sorry to him.:)

John Clark Said,

July 21st, 2008 @12:42 am

Great post.

Life is far too short to hold grudges. This story illustrates it perfectly.

In the moment of disappointment, there is a lesson to be learned and if you focus on the lesson instead of the disappointment you will learn valuable lessons that will serve you for a lifetime.

But if you hold on to the disappointment it will live as an anchor holding you back from the success in life you deserve.

Keep up the great work!

Here’s to your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark
http://www.lifetosuccess.com

admin Said,

July 21st, 2008 @10:05 am

Hi, Mardance,

We all did as teenage, as a father with a daughter coming to teen, I am learning to understand their point of view though we are one teenager before.

Hi John,

You are right, Life is too short. The Chinese has a proverb something like this, “The wind won’t stop when tree want calmness, and the parents were no longer there when the children wanted to show their love.”

Never let that happen.

BTW, I like your blog, may be we can exchange some articles. What do you think?

Natural Weight Loss Said,

July 22nd, 2008 @4:14 pm

A touching story yes…
I have experienced first hand how anger can poison our lives. It can be overwhelming to some however I have made it a life decision to always look through that and see the child inside that person and I will tell you that it has helped me to not take it as a personal attack and the biggest by product is that it has really helped the other person to soften there anger. I don’t take it as a whipped puppy but by really seeing and keeping that inner child in my minds eye has allowed our situation to make dramatic changes for the better. Most of the time I have found that anger flares up when there is not an in depth understanding of all view points of a situation.

I enjoyed this post, Thanks!
Rod

July 22nd, 2008 @5:17 pm

I am currently reading a book and one of the quote inside the introduction section sort of enlighten me it says “when we change the way we look at something, the thing we look at changes it response.” So I guess at time when we are very angry, we need to Re-LOOk on the thing or incident we look at for a different response.

Thanks for your comment