Success of a Happy Married Life
(M. Furqan Khan, Karachi)
A man and a woman had been
married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had kept no
secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the
top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her
about.
For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the
little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In
trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and
took it to his wife ' s bedside.
She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he
opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.
"When we were to be married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a
happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with
you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious
dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those
years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.
"Honey," he said "that explains the doll, but what about all of this money?
Where did it come from?"
"Oh, that?" she said. "That is the money I made from selling the dolls." :