"A 24-year-old boy
seeing out from the train’s window shouted…'Dad, look the trees are going behind!'
The dad smiled
and a young couple sitting nearby
looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior
with pity.
.
Suddenly he again exclaimed…
'Dad, look the clouds are running with us!'
The couple
couldn’t resist
and said to the old man…
'Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?'
.
The old man smiled and said…
'I did, and we are just coming from the hospital,
my son was blind from birth;
he just got his eyes today.' "
(a story from Dâvïs Kÿàküwå)
With a lesson of not judging in mind,
may we approach this day
with fresh eyes ourselves,
ready to see the outer world
as if for the first time,
with wonder and delight,
as did the son.
And may we seek to see all others
in our great human family with
acceptance, reverence and compassion.
Everyone has a story that we do not know,
even those we think we know quite well.
Truly,
