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The Power of Good Deeds: How One Saying Impacted My Life |
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Growing up, my mother had a saying that she constantly repeated to me whenever I
hurt someone or did something wrong. "The evil you do remains with you; the good
you do comes back to you." I never quite understood what she meant until she
told me a story when I was ten years old.
The story was about a woman who made chapatti for her family every morning and
left an extra one on the windowsill for any passerby who was hungry. Every day,
an old hunchback came and took the chapatti without saying a word of thanks but
instead muttered, "The evil you do remains with you; the good you do comes back
to you." The woman became frustrated with the old man's words and decided to
poison the chapatti she left for him. However, her conscience pricked her, and
she ended up throwing the poisoned chapatti into the fire and making a fresh one
instead.
Days passed, and the woman's son returned home hungry, starved, and weak. He
told his mother that he had collapsed a mile away and would have died if it
weren't for the old hunchback who had given him a whole chapatti. The woman
realized that the hunchback had saved her son's life with the very food she had
given him and understood the significance of the words, "The evil you do remains
with you; the good you do comes back to you."
This story had a profound impact on me. It taught me the power of good deeds and
how they can come back to you in unexpected ways. I learned that even if someone
doesn't appreciate the good you do at the time, you should never stop doing
good. One day, you will reap the reward for what you have done. From that day
forward, I made a conscious effort to do good and be kind to others, knowing
that it would come back to me in some way.
In conclusion, my mother's favorite saying, "The evil you do remains with you;
the good you do comes back to you," became significant in my life when she told
me the story of the woman and the hunchback. It taught me the importance of
doing good and how it can impact not only others but also yourself. |
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