I heard this story from one of the inspiration seminars that I listened to a while ago. The moral of the story is to be careful on what we say to other people; because it may be the last word you would have to say to other people.
A sister of 14 years old and a brother of 12 years old were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Warsaw. The sister was meticulously dressed; the brother was not. The sister felt embarrassed when she saw her brother's shoes were not neatly tied.
"Can't you tie your shoe laces nicely?" she yelled at him.
At the Auschwitz concentration camp, the sister and the brother were separated. At the end of the War, the sister survived the camp; but her brother did not.
She could not imagine herself that the last words she had ever said to her brother was her yelling at him... "Can't you tie your shoe laces nicely?"
After the camp, she made a vow to herself, never bad mouth to anyone because she never knew that could become the last words she had ever to say to someone she loved.
Monday, March 1, 2010
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