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There lived a woman with a child, who lived with her since the death of her husband.
They lived for so long a time since then In peace.

But there seemed to be a fault on the boy’s side. Anger to be precise.

Whenever he got upset with His mother, he would not talk to her or even eat.

A certain day as usual when he was upset with his mother, he refused to eat anything from her.

The mother laughed within, and unlike other times chose not to beg him to eat.

In the morning the boy ate nothing. In the afternoon he ate nothing. At night he was so hungry and wanted to eat something, that when he thought the mother was asleep, he went to take food from the pot without her knowledge.

As he opened the pot, he caught a glance of his mother looking at him. He pretended to be doing something else and left there.

In the morning of the next day, he couldn’t bear it and went to his mother saying, ”I’m hungry. Please forgive me”.

The mother smiled and said to him:

”Son, in life, to resolve conflict in every issue is the best. There’s no profit in anger and you’ll only hurt yourself as you’ve just done. Than become enemies or take drastic actions from anger, chose to resolve. Chose peace”.

The son was grateful for the lesson and never exhibited that act again.

Lesson: Over anger, violence or anything else, chose to love. Chose peace.

©Jemifor Zaphenathpaaneah Roland