Imagine yourself being a billionaire.How being filthy rich will make you happy with all the resources available to buy whatever you want anytime,anywhere.
But the truth is that happiness is not related to wealth.A happy person is happy whether he is rich or poor and the same goes with an unhappy person.You woudn’t know how rich you are until you read a book titled “I Wanted to See” by Borghild Dahl
“I had only one eye”,she writes”And it was so covered with dense scars that I had to do all my seeing through one small opening in the left of the eye.I could read a book of large print only by holding so close to my eye that my eyelashes brushed the pages”.But she refused to be pitied,refused to be considered “different”.As a child,she wanted to play hopscotch with other children,but she couldn’t see the markings.So after the other children had gone home,she got down on the ground and crawled along with her eyes near the marks.She memorized every bit of the ground where she and her friends played and soon became an expert at the game.She earned two college degrees:a B.A from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Arts from Columbia University.
Then in 1943,when she was fifty two years old,a miracle happened:an operation at the famous at the famous Mayo Clinic.She could now see forty times as well as she had ever been able to see before.
A new and exciting world of loveliness opened before her.She now found it thrilling to wash dishes in kitchen sink.”I begin to play with the white fluffy suds in the dishpan,”she wrotes.”I dip my hands into them and I pick up a ball of tiny soap bubbles.I hold them up against the light,and in each of them I can see the brilliant colors of a miniature rainbow”.
She found such ectasy looking at the soap bubbles and sparrows that she closed her book with these words:”Dear Lord’,I whisper.Our Father in Heaven,I thank Thee.I thank Thee”
Imagine thanking God because you can wash dishes and see rainbows in bubbles and sparrows flying through the snow!
Thank you for reading and if you enjoy it,please upvote it so that you will inspire me to extract more from the books I read.
Wow.Fantastic
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