My Love Story
A Beautiful Heart
The more hurt and pain you have gone thru in life, the
stronger and more
beautiful your heart will be.....
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the
town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart
in the whole valley.
A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart
for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in
it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful
heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud
and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd
and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful
as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the
old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but full of
scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and
other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and
there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places
there were deep gouges where whole pieces missing.
The people stared. How can he say his heart is more beautiful??
they thought. The young man looked at the old man's heart
and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking,"
he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect
and yours is a mess of scars and tears."
"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect
looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every
scar represents a person to whom I have given my love
- I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them,
and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits
into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces
aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish,
because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes
I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person
hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are
the empty gouges - giving love is taking a chance. Although
these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me
of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday
they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So
now do you see what true beauty is?"
The young man stood silently with tears running down
his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into
his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece
out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.
The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart
and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed
it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but
not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore
but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old
man's heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side.
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