A Soulful Journey

There is an ironic tale involving a blind person and a deaf man, both of whom have visited a renowned ear-eye-and-throat specialist in the hope that one might recover his hearing and the other his sight.   The skilled physician healed them both.   The blind could not see, and the deaf could now hear.   Ecstatically happy, both patients departed.   But the very next week, they returned.   “We can’t take it any longer!:” they complained.   “What’s the matter?’ asked the doctor. Said the man who was formerly blind” “I cant endure it.   All these years I have never been able to see my wife, but now that I do, I realize how utterly unattractive she is.   I had always imagined she was beautiful. But she’s so homely I am terribly disappointed.   I just can’t bear to look at her.” And the formerly deaf man explained, “For over 30 years I have never heard my wife’s voice, and now I hear her all the time.   I just can’t escape from her cons...

A woman goes up to a man and says, “Henry, you’ve changed so much!   You used to be short, Henry!   Now you are so tall.   You used to be heavy and now you are so thin!   You used t o be fair and look how dark you are!   What happened, Henry?   How did you change so much?” The man replies, “I am not Henry.   I am Arthur!” The woman looks at him and says, “So you’ve changed your name as well?” -Charles Osgood It is good to recognize when changes have occurred.   Denial of change does no good.   Which is the best way to interact with our friends and family?   Accept each person as they are, not as they were, not as we wish them to be.