Pretty Pink Glasses

Here's a story I remembered from my school days. Its about two men at a hospital. Their beds were beside each other. Which is why they have a story together.

Both the men were bed-ridden. However, one of them had the advantage of having his bed by the window, so that he could have a view of world outside the dreaded hospital walls. The other man, however did not enjoy this luxury. And so the man with his bed by the window, used to narrate what he could see in order to help his new found friend paint a picture of the beauty outside - in his head.

He used to talk about the beauty of the blue sky, the birds flying by every now and then, and most of all the beauty of the stream that ran by past the hospital premises. Everyday, he would repeat what he could see, making it sound ever more beautiful each time he spoke of it.

Several days passed, and the two men became really good friends. And then there came the day when the man by the window died and his bed was carried away. The other man was saddened and dis-heartened by this event. A few days later he asked one of the nurses to allow his bed to be moved closer to the window, so that he could get a look at the scenery his friend had painted for him in his head.

The nurse agreed. With all excitement he propped up and peered out the window. To his dismay, all he could see was an old brick wall. He called the nurse, and asked when and why the brick wall was built there. She said, the wall has always been there. The man was confused. So he told the nurse about how his friend had seen the sky, a stream and the birds. She smiled and told him that his friend had been blind from the very start!

Its the choice of the spectator to see what he wishes to see. You choose your own colors. You choose the colors that you view the world with. Whether it be 'Black and White' or whether it be 'PINK'!!