A great story that applies to EVERYONE!!

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words:

“The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”

” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.

Interpretation of this story:

I think this story means that if you proclaim religion and say your this great amazing person, but away from church are a bully and mean to innocent people because your angry and miserable at the world then you will breed anger and misery. The mean and evil acts that you do will stay with you and will cause you to have no friends, except those who can be tricked into liking you by your fake face of 'being nice.' But if your out living your religion and helping people because you want to be helpful like President Monson would do then you'll easily make friends. People will want to associate with you and will help you when you end up in a bad situation. I was scrolling down my blog to a post from a few years ago where I talked about getting 2 flat tires in one week and someone helped me fix it the first time. Well what happened was I was about a block from my apartment and my car was making weird noises. A lady from my stake was walking by and then waved me down. She pointed and said that she'd noticed my car had a flat tire. I had to get places so she said that her retired husband could get my car to a shop or he could try to fix it. Well later they met me at the library and told me that I'd had to get two new tires. I thought that I'd have to come up with $200 or $300 for that. Well funny enough the lady told me to not worry about it because they didn't want a refund and had bought the two new tires. I was super surprised, but it made sense because I'd been a counselor in a relief society presidency and this lady was in the stake relief society presidency. So I'd been to trainings with her and I guess she knew that I was still trying to get a better job at the time. (since I was working at DI and Old Gristmill) I still remember that and always try to help people if I can. There is a girl I knew a year ago who I've tried to help repeatedly and in recent months finally cut ties with her. Basically she doesn't want to be helped and lashes out with her anger at the world because she can't get her way and force her opinion on everyone. So I cut ties and in that case I obviously can't help her because she doesn't want to be helped. But it's so true when you breed hate and anger, and lash out at innocent people you'll continue in that miserable state for as long as you continue like that. But you'll be truly happy and having an amazing life/amazing friends and family if you serve and do good in the world. If you don't believe me change your bad behavior and you'll see the difference.