The story (2 of 3)

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This man has suffered so much, that he only had the strength to hate one soldier. This enemy soldier, who seemed to have no humanity left. He would come and push the most disgusting insects into the man’s mouth.

The man survived and sought to understand the reason and meaning of his ordeal. Was it to learn forgiveness? Maybe it was. So the man learned to forgive. He sought every one that harmed him. He met many and forgave many. He met all but the soldier that fed him the insects.

As the man expected, the soldier would be the hardest to forgive. It was time to meet. As soon as he saw the face the soldier, now wrinkled and old, memories rushed back to his mind. He had tried so hard to forget. The soldier could hardly recognise the man. He was now healthy and looked a lot better. The man identified himself. As soon as the soldier recognised the man, he hugged him with the strongest and warmest hug the man had ever received.

That day, the man heard words that taught him the final lesson. You see, the soldier, trained in survival skill, had vowed to himself to stay at the abandoned prison and keep the prisoner alive. The soldier survived on nothing else but roots and insects.