I’m promise you I will have a good time one day.
It was wintertime. A time when people give gifts to each other. A man named Paul received a beautiful car as a gift from his brother.
At the beginning of the festival, Paul was leaving his office when he saw a young man on the street admiring the beautiful new car.
Sir, is this car yours? he asked the scientist. Yes, my brother gave it to me as a grace gift, Paul replied. The boy was very surprised.
Does it mean that your brother gave you freely without paying anything? Ah… I said one day, and interrupted. Paul guessed what the guy wished for.
I expected that if I had a brother like that, he would say it. But it isn’t. he has made a mistake. What the boy said next shocked Paul. because it was something he didn’t expect.
I wish I was such a brother, was the little boy’s words. Paul nervously looked into the boy’s eyes and said, “Do you want to have fun with my car?” he asked the scientist.
Yes, I’m so happy! he replied to the scientist. They started walking together. After a little walk, the boy looked at Paul and said, “Lord, will you take me home? said.
Paul sighed. He guessed why the boy wanted to go to their house. He wondered if he wanted his family and neighbors to see him having fun in a nice car. But it wasn’t that.
Again, he guessed wrong a second time. Look, you’ll stop me by those two steps, said the boy. paul stopped the car for him. As soon as the boy got out of the car, he ran up the two stairs and into the house.
After a while, as he was coming back, Paul heard a boy’s voice. But it wouldn’t go away quickly.
Yesterday he carried his younger brother whose legs they could not walk. So it goes slowly. He brought his brother and put him under the stairs and pointed to the car.
Look, here you see it? If you are at home, she seems to have told you, doesn’t she? He didn’t pay anything. His brother gave it to him as a holiday gift.
My brother, I will give you a car like this one day. Then you look around at all the beautiful things I was telling you, and yes, one day I will buy them for you.
Paul was very sad. He got out of his car and walked to the boy who couldn’t walk.
He hugged her and brought her to the front seat of his car. The boy’s older brother’s eyes lit up with joy. He sat down next to his brother with great joy.
The three of them had an unforgettable party on the eve of the winter holidays. The story was narrated by a man named Dan Clark, a friend of Paul’s. To be honest, I couldn’t hold back my tears when I read this story.
I thought about a lot of things. After thinking about it, what kind of person am I to my brothers? That was the question I would ask myself.
I said one day…. and when the boy hung up and stopped talking, Paul guessed it was the wrong assumption. Paul’s assumptions and what the boy meant were different.
I will become a brother like this one day; I might give my brother such a beautiful gift; said the boy.
Our biggest problem in life is focusing only on what people can do for us, not what we can do for them.
John F. Kennedy once said, Instead of asking what my country will do for me, ask yourself what I will do for my country. I think each of us needs to ask ourselves a similar question.
What should my brother do for me? Instead, we should ask ourselves, what can I do for my brother?
Instead of just expecting our brothers to be good brothers to us, we should focus on being a good brother or sister to our brothers and sisters.
Approaching people should not be about getting benefits from them. Except for their benefit.
There are people in society who approach people only for their own benefit. Such people are called ayyalaallattos. They are not found where there is no use.
They have no hole they don’t sink into for personal gain. When they can get something from you, they will be around you only as long as you benefit them.
They eat and drink with you. They won’t turn around and look at you when you can’t help them. They don’t care about you.
There are also the opposite. There are a few who come to help you, to hold your hand, when you can’t help them. They count it as an opportunity to help you. An opportunity to do something for someone.
In the story above, the boy’s main wish was to be a good brother to his physically disabled brother, who was at home, and to give him a valuable gift like Paul’s brother.
It is not something his brother gives him. He focused on what he wanted to give to his brother.
Dear reader/s! think about it a little bit. If every human being in the world had such an attitude, if they would get rid of selfishness and start thinking about their brother/ sister, if they put others first instead of themselves, not on what people can help them, but on helping others What if he focused on helping each other and holding hands instead of competing? Our world would not look like it does today.
Just as human self-confidence makes this earth a place where few live in luxury and many live in great suffering and torment, if love prevailed over us, our earth would be a suitable place for all human races.
We need to focus on supporting and helping each other. There is a beautiful philosophy in Africa called Ubuntu. It means humanity.
Attitude I exist, because you exist; therefore we are, it contains. Your existence is crucial to my existence.
My existence plays an important role in your existence. You have what I don’t have; I have what you don’t have.
We bring together what we have and become whole. The boy wanted to share the good things he had found for himself with his lame-legged brother.
When Paul got out of the car to park it near their house, he ran to their house. He carried his brother out and showed him the car. He hadn’t told him what the car looked like before, so today he got a chance to show it to him in person.
Paul told him that his brother had given it to him without spending any money. He promised to buy his brother such a precious gift one day.
Isn’t that the kind of heart we have lost today? Yes, how good it would be if we all had a caring heart for our brother! the boy’s brother could not walk because his legs were paralyzed.
So he carried it out on his back. I must touch on one point here. About the physically disabled among us. It is a natural fate that we as a people have many physically disabled people among us.
We have many people who are blind, deaf, paralyzed, disabled, mentally ill, have different skin tones and so on.
The big question we need to ask ourselves is, is our attitude toward these disabled people right? the slightest.
How much are we encouraging and helping such people? Physical disability is a natural fate. It can be a naturally occurring disease.
People with this condition need attention and support from those of us who are healthy. They want us to reach out and support them. As a nation, I think we have forgotten our physically disabled.
The attention we are giving them is not so much. due to lack of facilities, our disabled people are forced to take to the streets to pray.
They are looking at people’s eyes in summer when the sun is burning and in summer when it is cold and rainy. Why did this happen?
It is due to our inability to pay attention to our physically disabled people and provide them with jobs to support themselves.
They are exposed to such problems because we have not established a strong infrastructure to help the physically disabled at the national level.