CORRECTION

  I saw a little boy ( of about five or six) playing with sand. I had been watching him for a while now and when I could take it no longer, I went up to him furiously.

  ' Will you stop what you are doing, you this dirty thing?' I thundered. The boy looked up at me, hissed and continued. 

 ' What? Me?' I said to myself getting even more furious.

 ' Are you deaf? I said stop playing with sand.' I thundered again.

The boy still didn't answer me yet continue playing with the sand. I was more infuriated. Angrily, I pushed his hand and scattered what he had supposedly molded(lol) with the sand.

Now, he stood up and looked at me in an annoying way.

 ' Go away from here, dirty boy. Can you even imagine the shape of his head?' I said to him and hissed loudly. The boy mimicked what I said, hissed back and ran away before I could teach him some lessons.

 ' You just let me get a hold of you.....' I shouted to the already running boy. I was pissed and sincerely wished I could get a hold of him. I was so going to deal with him. I was going to beat the living day and night out of his body.

  Similarly, I saw another little boy playing with his injury. The stuff was so disgusting and like every child would, he was playing with it.

  I was getting so irritated and nauseated.

 ' Stop what you're doing!' I said to him.

 ' Don't you know that if you keep playing with it this way it'd expand? Do you want it to become bigger?' I added and he shook his head.

 ' Good boy. Don't worry, very soon the injury would heal but you also have to help it by not touching it. Is that clear?' I said and he nodded.

  ' Good boy. Now give me a high five.' I said again, smiling broadly. He returned the smile and took my high five.

  Now compare the two sceneries. The reaction of the second little boy is way way different from that of the first. 

Reason is because, the way I corrected the first little boy was also different from the way I corrected the second.

 No one likes to be bossed around. My intention was actually to correct the two of them, but my approach was different.

 There is a way you correct a person's wrong doing that the person would not only hearken to your correction bit would also like you as a person.

 Correcting in love is so very important. You can't claim you're correcting a person when the correction is done harshly. Correct the person like you truly do care about him or her.

 I watched as a woman went up to a young girl. The cloth the girl wore to church was quite short. The woman was trying to correct her that ots not proper. Instead of doing it the right way, she pulled the gown down and was like, ' You shouldn't have bothered wearing any cloth at all. Next time, just come naked.'

' Will you deaf it down a little?' I sat where I was watching them and I knew the girl was going to be hurt coz I imagined myself in that situation.

 Truth be told, if I were to be in the girl's shoes, I can't predict what I'd do. But one thing is certain, I'd despise the woman.

 Why not call the girl PERSONALLY ( this shows that the correction was done publicly, like she intended to ridicle the girl) and give her reasons why she shouldn't wear dresses like that?

 ' Don't you know this is called indecent dressing? Don't you know that people would begin to see you as a wayward girl because of the way you're dressed when you're not? Don't you know these dresses are for harlots?' These are things the woman should have explained to the young girl instead of ranting unnecessarily.

 Correction goes hand in hand with love. For people to heed to your correction, they have to be sure that it's out of love and not out of anger, jealousy or hatred.

 I'm not saying you shouldn't correct people but use the right approach. Show the person you're correcting that it's out of the love and utmost care that you have for him or her that making you correct him or her.

 Correction isn't limited to younger ones alone. You can correct friends too but use the right approach.

 No one will listen to your correction if it's harsh. Infact, they'd be offended instead. 

 Know how to say some certain things to some certain things to suit the purposefor saying it.

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