..cite ni aku baca last week...lam sokabar new sunday times dated 27/05 ... kadang2 aku selak gak sokabar omputih nih...pasal ayah aku mang wajib beli sokabar ni hari2...tapi aku paling suka kalu hari ahad, dia lebih banyak cerita dari biasa....so, last week, aku terbaca lak satu column nih...it's a sunday column written by kalimullah hassan ..
a story that i'm about to share is emailed by one of the reader to him..he thought he'd pass on some which had touched him, and which he felt the story could possibly impart some lessons to us,..
it's about how one human being in adversity tries to help make another's last days brighter and happier...it goes thus:
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluids from his lungs. 
his bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. They spoke for hours on end ---of their wives, families, ther homes, their job..
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be livened by the avtivities and colours of the world outside.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.
Although the other man couldn't hear the band---he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.
Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospitall attendants to take the body away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate,the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The burse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.
Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. The window, he found, faced a blank wall.
Surprised, he asked the nurse what could have compelled his dead roommate to describe such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse was taken aback. "but he was blind and could not even see the wall...." she said. "perhaps..."she wondered aloud, "he just wanted you to be happy..."
food for thought..
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