·٠•—————☞ NON-VIOLENT PARENTING ☜—————•٠·
Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story as an example of “non-violence in parenting”:
“I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbours, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father ask me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, ‘I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.’
After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
He anxiously asked me, ‘Why were you late?’ I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, ‘The car wasn’t
ready, so I had to wait,’ not realizing that he had already called the garage. When he caught me in the lie, he said: ‘There’s something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn’t give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I’m going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.’
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn’t leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered.
I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again. I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don’t think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of non-violence.”
“Your wife is not a cook of your kitchen; she is made to be your queen in the heaven. For a man who loves his wife like a blind is the best man to be among the mankind. Be like the blind that sees no defect; learn to love her more than you expect.”
(via letssharestories)
After watching playful kiss, i bet Lee Si Young can play Jessica’s character in no time. But i doubt Jessica can play the tomboyish bodyguard character. Lee Si Young played it awesomely!!
secret garden parody in flower boys ramyun shop. that is so freaking funny! LMAO
It’s supermegafoxyawesomehotness! Lee min ho is hot hot hot, super cool, super badass, and super smart. But let’s talk about the ending of the drama. At first I was glad that he’s survived. That is all that matter to me at least. However, I was feeling a bit uneasy with few of the last scenes. It was made that the ending was very ambiguous. It wasn’t clear what really happened. It’s like watching the movie Inception by Leonardo dicarpio. Letting the viewers run wild with their imaginations to guess what’s going on. And then, I read a few of the possible scenarios. There’s one explanation, though heartbreaking, actually made sense. He died. At the cafe scene, when Na Na and the president daughter received the wedding invitation, the 2nd bodyguard (I don’t remember her name) said the blue house is quiet as Na Na quits and LYS is “no longer here”. Then in the cemetery scene, we vaguely can see an elderly couple standing which was suspected to be president and LYS’s mum. Though I admit that this was unclear. After that when Na Na saw LYS. They just smile. (His smile was breathtaking :) melted there and then). There was no dialogue, no physical contact. It’s like it was just her imagination. Also why ajushi, Na Na and LYS’s mum all were shown to have luggage with them? And not LYS? That is very suspicious. And the final scene? He drove around the city? WTH? I don’t feel the significant of it at all. But some say, that he was the protector of the city. The City Hunter. His ‘presence’ remained. So that’s why we have that scene. Get it? I know this is just speculation. It could be totally wrong and honestly I don’t want it to be true. But a part of me actually felt the sadness and in a way accepted the ending that he’s dead. T_T The only way to be sure is to wait for City Hunter 2 (if there is one)…..
