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Today I got this message to my email adress in Hungarian,I will translate it to English as an exercise.Since it contains a nice message,I thought I will share it in a blog,thus I can practie my English too,at the same time.

The window

Two seriously ill people shared the same hospital room.

...One of them every day sit up in the bed for an hour,to motivate his body this way.

His bed was next to  the only window of the hospital room.

The other patient lied on his bed all day long,staring on at the ceiling.

They were talking of their families,their wives,their children,the time when they were soldiers-(it has been oligatory in my country to every men,to do a military service during a year time-but now this law was obliterated)-their holidays,as it is usual in similar situations.

Every afternoon,the man next to the window began to convey what was he seeing through the window from the outside world,when he had sit up in his bed.

The man lying on the other bed was kept alive only by those colourful narratives of his neighbour,this was the only diversity that scattered his monotony.

The window overlooked to a cosy little park,decorated with a little pond in the middle.
Wild ducks and swans were swimming about in the little pond,and children were playing with thier toy ships on the bank ofthe pond.
Lovers were sitting next to beds of colourful flowers during hours,mindful of one another.

Whilst the patient next to the window described the outer world with exhaustively in details,the other man closed his eyes visualizing the descripted scenery.

On a hot summer afternoon,the patient next to the window was talking about a carnival procession going through the park.

Although the constantly lying man didn't see and heard  the musicians,he could imagine them according to the sensual description of the other man.

Days and weeks were rolling by.
One morning the nurse,who was about to bath the patients,found the patient next to the window lifelessly,he has passed on quietly during the night.

The other patient felt an immense sadness,and when he had a chance,he begged the nurse to shift him into the bed,next to the window.

After he was left alone,slowly and painfully he turned over to the window to look outside,and suddenly he was stupefied to see:..............the window was facing a firewall.

He asked the nurse,that what could happen to the passed away patient,that he had pictured the outside world so nicely.
The nurse uncovered,that the man was BLIND,that's why he couldn't see the wall eiter.

-Probably he wanted to encourage you!-said the nurse to the patient.

Moral:

-The real happiness is  to make other people happy,not bothering with our own situation.

-To share our problems we can decrease them,but if we share our happiness with others,we can multiply it!

-If you want to feel rich yourself,count all those things in your life you can not buy with money!

-Every day is gift from life(God),so appreciate every day this way-because -although you may think you still have a plenty of time-but your days are terminate!!....

I wish you happy days!:)

-Monika-

p.s.:Don't hesitate to correct my grammatical errors,please.