From then on, I began to treasure what life has given me. It was a sunny winter day. I had gone down the tower when a blind man came toward me. He kept close to the wall, touching it tightly with his arm. I s still and looked at him walking toward the tower. “What does a blind man want to climb the mountain for? ”I w
“Not the view certainly, perhaps he wants to jump. ”Thinking of this terrible reason, I thought I shoulD.f
him.
He went up slowly and stopped from time to time. I followed him a few steps behind . When he got the first corner of the bell tower, I came cto him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “But I wonder why you came up.” “You’d never g
.” He said.
“Tell me then.” He smiled, “Perhaps climbing up the tower. You have noticed―and yet , not being blind, perhaps you won’t ―how the sun shines into the tower through the w, so that one can feel the cool steps suddenly become quite w
, even in winter. But behind the wall there is shade, There is no place so good as this for f
the difference between light and darkness. Though I am blind, I also want to feel the happiness brought by the sunlight.” He said and seemed as p
as a child.
I had never thought that even a blind man could have his way to enjoy the beautiful life. But we often paid no attention to its value because we never lost it.
We went down the tower t . From then on, I began to treasure what life has given me.