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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large
celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely
ceremony and to partake of the activities and celebrations. A wonderful
time was had by all. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown
and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell
that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with
a proposal: I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen
our marriage." She offered. "Each of us will write a list
of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then,
we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier
together." The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate
room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about
the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day
and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast
table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
"I'll start," offered the wife. She took
out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact.
As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed
that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.
"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing"
the husband replied, "Keep reading your list." The wife continued
to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly
placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it. "Now,
you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our
lists." She said happily. Quietly the husband stated, "I don't
have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that
you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely
and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and
his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed,
depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them.
We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise.
Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying
when we can look.
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