“The burden of hatred”

A Junior School teacher noticed some of her students carrying hatred and fighting with each other. She wanted to teach all a lesson and told her students to bring some potatoes in a plastic bag to school. “Don’t think it’s for preparing chips just bring”, she told.

Each potato will be given the name of the person whom that child hates. Some decided to bring a sack of potatoes. Like this the number of potatoes would be equal to the number of persons they hate. On the decided day the children brought their potatoes well addressed as instructed. Some had two, some had three and some had even five potatoes. ..

The teacher said they have to carry these potatoes with them everywhere they go for a week. As the days passed the children started to complain about the spoilt smell that started emanating from these potatoes. ..

Also those who had many potatoes complained that it was very heavy to carry them all around. The children got rid of this assignment after a week when it got over.

The teacher asked, “How did you feel in this one week?” The children discussed their problems about the smell and weight. Then the teacher said, “This situation is very similar to what you carry in your heart when you don’t like some people. This hatred makes your heart unhealthy. That may be also a major reason for rising heart attacks and you carry that hatred in your heart everywhere you go.

If you cannot bear the smell of spoilt potatoes for a week, imagine the impact of this hatred that you carry throughout your life, on your heart?” Hatred is a burden, it ruthlessly crushes the one who carries it deep inside, not realizing he’s sown a poisonous seed within his own heart. Wipe it before it wipes you!