Remember the story about Sam? Hospital bound, looking out the window? His roommate listened, as Sam shared sites seen . . . a couple kissing, birds feeding their young, and when it stormed the rainbow that appeared! Sam, an average sort of guy, friendly and outgoing, but people didn’t know much about him until he became ill.

Here’s the rest of the story… Sam’s roommate Mike complained at every meal. This is trash! Then he’d wait his family’s arrival with fast food. Sam gave a prayer of thanks when a meal arrived and savored every morsel. He’d comment that the chef must have been thinking of me when she made this meatloaf, “mm, delish!” Mike would hear Sam go on about how savory his meals were and how lucky he was to be in this hospital.

Mike wondered why Sam had the window. He had a blank wall. Why was Sam’s food better? Why was it that Sam was treated nicer?

On the day Sam was released, there were joyful farewells. Then the first matter of business for Mike was to move to “that” window. He looked out and became irate, screaming, what is the meaning of this? “Someone switched my room as I slept! How could there be a brick wall outside?! Was it all a lie?! What about the great food?

A nurse understood and yelled back, “Sam is blind!” There was a deafening silence, and then as if a long-awaited gift arrived. . . Mike got it. In that brief moment he realized that life is truly how you see it. Right then he made the resolution to live life more like Sam from that day on.