PEDIATRIC DOSE
A child studying in the first standard developed severe fever at night. His
mother searched the shelf for a pediatric syrup of paracetamol. But the bottle
was almost empty. She had a stock of tablets of paracetamol (500 mg). The child
liked plantains very much. His mother broke a tablet into halves, peeled a
plantain carefully and pushed one half of the tablet (250 mg) into the
plantain. She covered the fruit with the peel and gave it to the child. Later, to
know whether her trick had worked, she asked him, “How was the plantain, dear?”
He replied, “The plantain was delicious, Mommy, but the seed was bitter. So I
spat out the seed and ate the fruit.”
A vain lady asked the Vicar, “Father,
today I spent a lot of time before the mirror, watching my image and wondering
how beautiful I am. Is that misbehaviour, Father?” The Vicar told her, “Your
action has a different name. It was not misbehaviour; it was a case of
misunderstanding!”
A young man had to return
alone to the place of his work in a distant country, a week after his wedding.
He wrote his first loving letter to his beloved wife with his own hands to give
it a personal touch. In the letter, he addressed her as ‘my better half.’ But
unfortunately, he had a very bad and illegible handwriting. She read his loving
address as: MY BITTER HALF’. That initiated a quarrel which gradually
intensified and ended in their divorce.
A moment of misunderstanding
or misinterpretation may be very disastrous and may make a couple forget the
millions of memorable moments spent
together.
It
is wrong to draw conclusions until we know all the facts. His Grace the Most
Rev. Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan and former Head of
the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, once remarked humorously, “Three unmarried girls
are responsible for most of the troubles in the world. These miscreants are: Misunderstanding,
Misinterpretation and Misrepresentation.” Because these three words start
with ‘Mis’, they were described humorously by the Metropolitan as ‘Miss’
troublemakers.
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© By: Prof.
Dr. Babu Philip, Former Professor, Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala, India, Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu,
Former Professor, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Leo.
S. John, St. Antony's Public School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally and Neil
John, Alfeen Public
School, Kanjirappally, Kerala, India. For more moral
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