Learn To Appreciate

A man raced down the hospital steps one rainy day and jumped into a passing bus with the remark, "What a beautiful day it is!" The rain was pouring in torrents, it was dreadfully cold and everyone was bemoaning the foul weather. The conductor remarked, half amused, "You must be mad, Mister, to call this a beautiful day."

"You'd be as mad with delight", the man replied with enthusiasm, "If you also had recovered your sight after three years of blindness.

"We should learn to appreciate what we have. Let us enjoy the pleasures that are ours, instead of pining for those we miss.

The following little verse may be remembered in this context

Winter makes us long for Spring
Darkness for the down;
We always seem to miss them most,
Our playmates when they're gone!

Holding Hands

Sitting on a beach one summer day, watching two children, a boy and a girl,
playing in the sand. They were hard at work building an elaborate
sandcastle by the water's edge, with gates and towers and moats and internal
passages.

Just when they had nearly finished their project, a big wave came along and
knocked it down, reducing it to a heap of wet sand. I expected the children
to burst into tears, devastated by what had happened to all their hard work.
But they surprised me. Instead, they ran up the shore away from the
water, laughing and holding hands, and sat down to build another castle. I
realized that they had taught me an important lesson.

All the things in our lives, all the complicated structures we spent so much
time and energy creating, are built on sand. Only our relationships to other
people endure.

Sooner or later, the wave will come along and knock down what we have worked
so hard to build up. When that happens, only the person who has somebody's
hand to hold will be able to laugh...