The other man was to spend his days slept on the back. The two companions in misfortune spoke each other during hours. They spoke about their wives and families, described their house, their work, their participation in the military service and the places where they had been on holiday.

And each afternoon, when the man in the bed close to the window could sit down, it spent time describing with his companion of room all that it saw outside.

The man in the other bed started to live for these one hour periods when its world was widened and brightened by all the activities and the colors of the external world.

Room, the sight gave on a park with a beautiful lake. The ducks and the swans played on water while the children made sail their boats, reduced models. The in love ones went arm above, arm below, among flowers with the colors of the rainbow. Large trees decorated the landscape and one could see with far the city taking shape.

While the man close to the window described all these details, the man on other side of the room closed the eyes and imagined the picturesque scene.

At the time of beautiful an afternoon, the man close to the window described a parade which passed by there. Although the other man could not hear the orchestra, it could see it with the eyes of its imagination, so much his companion depicted it in an alive way.

The days and the weeks passed. One morning, per hour of the bath, the nurse found the body without life of the man close to the window, dead peacefully in her sleep. Saddened, it called the employees so that they come to take the body.

As soon as it felt that time was adapted, the other man asked whether it could be moved beside the window. The nurse, happy to grant this small favour to him, ensured herself of her comfort, then it only left it.

Slowly, painfully, the patient raised himself a little, while being pressed on an elbow to throw his first glance outside. Finally it would have the joy of seeing by itself what his friend had described to him. It was stretched to turn slowly to the window close to the bed. However all that it saw, was... a wall!

The man asked the nurse why his companion of room deceased had depicts very an other reality to him. The nurse answered that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

" Perhaps, he wanted only to encourage you ", commented on it.

Epilogue...
There is an extraordinary happiness to return the other happy ones, in spite of our own tests. The shared sorrow reduced of half the pain, but it happiness, once shared, is some doubled. If you want to feel rich, you have to only count, among all the things which you have, those that the money cannot buy.

Today is a gift, this is why it is called the present.

The origin of this message is unknown, but it carries happiness to each person who transmits it. Do not keep this page. Do not send money. Send it to five your friends with whom you wish good luck. You will see that something of good will arrive to you in four days.