We are all blind

There was a woman in America, Borghild Dahl, an author who was born in 1890. Borghild had no sight in one eye and was legally blind in the other, yet became a teacher at the college level and an author. In her childhood she wanted to play hopscotch with the other children, but she couldn't see the lines. Thus, when all the kids left the school in the evening, she layed on the lines and crawled around on them. She chiseled the shape of that piece of land into her mind, memorizing every bits and pieces of it. Soon she became master of the game. Later on, she got a third level degree on Columbia University, she became a teacher in South Dakota and professor of journalism. She was teaching and publishing for thirteen years there. When she was 52 years of age she had a surgery on the famous Mayo Clinic. After more than half century of blindness, she was able to see way much better. A new, exciting and beautiful world has opened up for her. Now she even found fascinating if she could wash up the dishes. "I'm playing with the white foam in the sink. I immerse my hand in it and take a size of a small ball of bubbles. I hold it in the sunlight and I see the color of a lilliputian rainbow in every each of them." she said. As she looked up she seen sparrows flying by front of her window in the beautiful snowfall. She finished her fascinating book with the following words: "Dear Lord, I whisper, Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee."

We should be ashamed of ourself. We could live in a lovely world, but we are blind and we could not see it. We are spoiled and could not enjoy it. If you want to give up worrying constantly and start to live for real this is my advice: keep track of the good things, but not your calamities.