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are reflected in their children's Behaviour From that day there was no share for me in the sweets. I went home and cried my eyes out. My mother patiently tried to console me, but I would not yield. Finally she went to the rich lady and humbly requested her to tell her children not to munch their sweets and chocolates when they came out to the streets to play. The lady was very rude and curtly told my mother that her children had every right to eat sweets wherever they wanted and that it was none of my mother's business. My mother was shown the door and she swallowed her pride and came away. But she reached the end of her tether when I, thinking all the while that she had gone to the lady's house to get me sweets, started clamouring for them. In her anger she took up a stone and flung it at me. Unfortunately the stone hit me on my forehead and I began to bleed profusely. My mother was filled with remorse and as for me, I never again asked for sweets. I grew up, made my way in the world and became a millionaire, but the scar has become a permanent part of my face. Whenever I look at myself in the mirror, I see it and am reminded of the history behind it. It always seems to be telling me: "The happiness of others left this scar on your forehead, then beware that your happiness does not leave a
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