Saturday 20 February 2016

Short Story (giving)

GIVING
Andrew Loo was born and raised in poor family background. He lived with his single mother who sick. Because of that, his mother couldn’t work and afford the medicines for her health. Due to that, Andrew felt sympathy and responsible towards his mother’s conditions.

            One gloomy day, Andrew had decided to leave home early in the morning to the market place. As soon as he arrived, he went straight to pharmacy near the market to look for his mother’s medicine. Unfortunately, the medicine price was too expensive. In spite of that, without long thinking, Andrew decided to steal the painkillers by hoarding it into his pockets secretly. By chance Andrew was caught by the owner of the pharmacy, Uncle John. As the storekeeper berates Andrew about stealing his merchandise, a soup seller named Mr. Jacob Clerk at a nearby booth comes up to Andrew and asks him if his mother is sick. Andrew reluctantly nods yes. Due to sympathy, Mr. Jacob willingly pays the Uncle John’s price of the painkillers. Next, he then calls to his daughter Diana Clerk to bring the boy some veggie soup to take home. Diana rolled her eyes in a manner that let us know, this was nothing new with her father because his generosity to help poor people.

            A couple decades later, the soup seller Mr. Jacob, still running his soup business as usual, until the day he falls down in his restaurant of some unnamed illness. He is rushed to the hospital. After Mr. Jacob safely recovered from surgery, his daughter Diana received a bill $124000. Diana was clearly distraught and unsure how to pay the bill. She then cried at the bed of her recovered father. Without expecting, she found a note from the young boy who had been helped twenty years earlier by her father. Now, the boy is presumably a successful doctor, named Doctor Loo. He has paid the bill in full for the kindness and giving nature of the man so many years before.

            As a nutshell, after Mr. Jacob had fully recovered, he and his daughter Diana met the note’s owner. They went to Dr. Loo’s room to meet him. As soon as Mr. Jacob met Dr. Loo, he hugged and thanked Dr. Loo for his kindness and wares. Moral of the story, no one has ever become poor by giving. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.


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