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Tit for Tat

 Today, I wanted to share this short story, 'Tit for Tat' I read quite some time ago. 

There lived a happy, married couple. One day the husband and wife got into a huge argument. The wife, in her anger, did not talk to her husband and went on with the day. The husband remembered that he had a very important meeting the next day and had a flight to catch at 7 am. He set his alarm to get up early. Being a heavy sleeper, he wanted his wife to wake him up. But not wanting to apologise, instead of talking to her, he slipped a note under her pillow which read something in the lines of, 'Important meeting tomorrow. Have to catch an early flight. Wake me up at 6 am'. Having done this, he went to bed in peace. The next morning he woke up to find that it was 7 am and his wife sleeping peacefully next to him. He became furious and was about to yell at her when a note on his bedside table caught his eye. It read, 'Wake up it's 6 am. You are going to be late'.  

The story basically shows that we cannot expect someone to treat us one way when we don't treat others the same way. Treat others how you want to be treated.

 Another thing I feel this story shares is that it is okay to apologise at times even though we are not in the wrong. I'm not asking anyone to be a coward but maintaining peace of mind is better than trying to win the argument. Remember, 'To err is human but to forgive is divine'. 

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