A woman lost her husband
whom she loved dearly. She was plunged into the depths of sorrow. For
months together, she did not know what it was to smile. One day, she
happened to look out of the window and found two children in the street
below. They appeared to be poor. Their feet were bare. Their clothes
were scanty. She came out of her palatial mansion and asked them: "Who
are your parents?"
"We are orphans," they
answered.
"Who takes care of you?"
asked the lady.
And they said: "The
neighbours give us some little things from time to time, and that is how
we have been able to survive." The woman forgot her sorrow. She took the
children to a departmental store and said to them: "Take what you
will�dresses, shoes, anything you like!"
The children could not
believe it. As they kept on taking one thing after another, their joy
knew no bounds and something of their joy stole into the heart of the
woman. She forgot her grief and for the first time for many months, her
face was wreathed in smiles.
In the measure we make
others happy, is the measure, and many times over, happiness travels to
us. �J.P. Vaswani
