(Or how our inner feelings can
mislead us)
There were once four friends. They were childhood friends who
had now become adults. John got married to Mary and Peter got married to Jane. They
were so close that the whole community thought them inseparable.
However, one day Peter and Jane quarreled and fell out and
apart. Peter told John and Mary that Jane insulted him. Jane said he slapped
her for asking him why he had come home late. John and Mary talked them into
sinking their differences, but it didn`t work. John and Mary put it in prayer
but it still didn`t work. This situation lasted for two years, during which time
the two couples were no longer seen together.
One day, John spotted Peter and Jane walking hand-in-hand on
a Sunday afternoon. He couldn`t believe his eyes. When he ran home and told
Mary, both of them said it was unbelievable that their friends should solve
their problem without telling them. For that reason, Mary vowed not to talk to
Peter or Jane any more. After some persuasion by John, she accepted to talk to
Peter but not Jane, the reason being that as her best friend, Jane had “betrayed”
her by not letting her know she was about to reconcile with her husband Peter.
From then on, whenever Mary met both Peter and Jane, she would greet only Peter
and completely ignore Jane.
Do you believe that Mary was crying more than the bereaved
and should not have done so? Or was she just interested in seeing her friends
being divided by problems. Are we sometimes like that – unhappy that somebody
has solved a problem?
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© Tikum Mbah Azonga 2014
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