The Window

[Tell of how, in bearing the heavy cross of their particular illness or debilitation, their focus was on us and not themselves, how they somehow managed to remain positive and endearing.]

A most moving story was penned by G.W. Target, entitled The Window. Its setting was a hospital room which had two beds at opposite ends of each other and one window. The window was placed in such a way that only one patient in one of the beds could look and see out the window. Two patients in that particular room were very sick. The man who was able to see out the window regularly reported to the other man what he saw. He talked about the weather, the cloud formations, and the pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Some of the people he saw, he saw with such regularity that they began to discuss the p…