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An Act of Kindness That

Changed My Life

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here I was, as the mix of warm and cool

T sun was setting on colours, leaving a good

the horizon, standing on the contrast, pleasing to the

bridge preparing to solve a eye.

thousand problems with
“What are warm and
one jump. My life had
cool colours? How do things
crashed upon itself, being
look fluffy?” The blind man
divorced, getting fired, and
said in response. I continued
unable to pay rent or eat,
to describe the weather to
my life was miserable. All
him in great detail, but he
these negative thoughts The blind man
only responded with more
entrenched in my mind. I eventually stopped asking
inquiries, leaving me
could not bear it anymore. questions and told me: “No
incompetent and eventually
matter how you describe
When I was about to giving up. “Well what about
things to me, I will never
climb over the fence, a blind the pebbles we are stepping
understand as I have been
man approached me. on, could you describe
blind since I was brought to
“Hello, how are you doing?” that?” he replied trying to

this world, I have never
he asked. “It could have comfort me. “The pebbles
taken a glimpse of
been better,” I responded. are all unique in their own

anything.” Before I could
He asked me how the way, some shiny, some dull,
respond, he continued,
weather was. I said the sun some large, some small,” I
“People with depression are
was slowly setting on the said, trying to describe in a
the same, no matter how
horizon while the clouds simple manner but yet again
you try to tell them how
were as fluffy as a cute I was bombarded with
beautiful the
puppy and the sky was a questions.
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