<i>Showing patience to aging parents</i>
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This is a story about an old man and his son. It was a lovely day and both were sitting outside in their lawn. Hearing the chirping of a sparrow, the man asked, “What is that?” The son, who was busy reading the newspaper, nonchalantly replied, “A sparrow.” The man asked the same question a couple of times, and each time the son replied with increasing impatience and annoyance. At one point, the son burst out, “How many times will I have to tell you that it's a sparrow?” The man went in and came back with a diary, asking the son to read it aloud. This was what it read: “Today, my youngest son, who turned three a few days ago, was sitting with me at the park. When a sparrow sat in front of us, he asked me 21 times what it was and I replied every time that it was a sparrow, hugging him every single time as he asked me the question, feeling affection for my innocent little boy.” The aging parents need to be dealt with extra patience and love.
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