The last conversation
In 1939, a Jewish family in Austria was taken away. First, they took away the parents, and then they took away the children separately. The girl, who is 13 years of age at that time, and her brother, who is 8 years of age, were brought to the railway station with many other kids.
The parents were taken to some labor camp. The kids were separated, pulled out from a wealthy family, and now they are on the railway platform, on a cold winter day.
Kids are kids. Once they are there, they are playing, and this boy is playing with people. They're kicking around something, playing football. Then the train came. The soldiers came and pushed everybody into the train. Like cattle, they were all loaded up. And after they got into the train, and the train started moving, the boy said he forgot his shoes on the platform. The girl got mad at him. She's 13-years-old, just been separated, bewildered. And now they are on the train; they don't know where they are going, what's next. They don't know anything.
Now it is history; we know all the things that happened. At that moment, these little children, they don't know anything. What's going to happen. And now this little boy leaves his shoes. It's a cold month.
So she held him by the ear and twisted it, and abused him 'You are an idiot! I have enough trouble on my hands, and now you have to leave your shoes and come.' And when the next station came, they separated the boys and the girls. So he was taken away somewhere, she was taken away somewhere else.
Four years later, she came out of a concentration camp—the only survivor of the family. Seventeen members of the family just disappeared, including her brother. She never figured where he went. And, all that she remembered were the last things that she had said to her brother. All the horrible things she told him because he lost his shoes.
And then, when she came out of the concentration camp, she made up her mind. It doesn't matter whom I speak to when I speak to somebody if that happens to be the last time I speak to them, I should not regret. And this one vow that she took for herself just transformed her whole life and became such a beautiful human being. Even when such a horrific thing happened to her, she made a blessing out of it.
Inspired by a true story by Sadhguru - Even the worst situation can transform your life