求有关朋友的英文故事!要短点然后最好是寓言故事~

求有关朋友的英文故事!要短点然后最好是寓言故事~
求有关朋友的英文故事!
要短点然后最好是寓言故事~

求有关朋友的英文故事!要短点然后最好是寓言故事~
The Window
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 fluid 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.The men talked for hours on end.They spoke of their wives and families,their homes,their jobs,their involvement in the military service and where they had been on vacation.
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 life would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color 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 amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow.Grand old trees graced the landscape,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 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 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 hospital attendants to take him away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate,the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window.The nurse 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 world outside.Finally,he would have the joy of seeing it for himself.He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.
It faced a blank wall.The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.She said,"Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."
There is tremendous happiness in making others happy,despite our own situations.Shared grief is half the sorrow,but happiness when shared,is doubled.

We are most often called upon to support othersa in friendship. Several years ago,Donna had been feeling very depressed. She had just broken up with her boyfriend of two years, and she was having a ve...

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We are most often called upon to support othersa in friendship. Several years ago,Donna had been feeling very depressed. She had just broken up with her boyfriend of two years, and she was having a very difficult time accepting the loss. She had been laid up with a knee injury for several days, and the time alone at home certainly was not helping. Her misery was only compounded bu her frustration at herself for not being able to pull it together and stop crying all the time.
Early one morning, Donna received a phone call with some terrible news: jer best froemd's brotherhad been killed in a car accident.Doona had known this friendl. Mary , and her brother nearly her entire life, and the news was debastating . However, Donna quickly pulled herself together got in the car and drove to her friend's house to be there with her.
Over the course of the next fes days, amidst the haze of the funeral and hundrteds of visitors, Donna was 100 percent present for Mary. She held her close while she cried endless tears, sat by her side as the waves of grief washed over her friend, and slept on the floor next to Mary's bed to make sure she did not wake up alone in the middle of the night. During that time she hardly felt any pain in her knee at all and none of the depression she had been experiening.
Severak weeks later, when life began to return to normal. Donna realized that the level of support she had given Mary far exceeded any support she had offered herself during her dark time. She was able to use the support she had given her friend as mirror for the support she had been withholding from herself. She realized that her own tears required as much attention and nurturing from her as anyone else's, and that if she could give it to another, she must be able to also five it to herself.

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