Rebuilding the House..

When you are down with your problems, stuck in a mess, brooding over your misery, you meet a person who pours out all his sufferings to you and you listen to him patiently. You understand his mental agony and you find yourself helping that person in someway to overcome his problems. You are so involved in solving his problems, for a moment you have forgotten all yours and in that detached state of mind , you find a way out of yours. It has been put forth in a more eloquent way by one of my favourite writers.

Excerpts from "Like the flowing river" by Paulo Coelho.(One of my favourites)


An acquaintance of mine ended up in serious financial difficulty because he could never manage to bring together dream and reality. Worse, he dragged others down with him, harming people he had no wish to harm.
Unable to repay the debts he had accumulated, he even considered suicide. Then one afternoon, as he was walking down a street, he saw a house in ruins. "That building is me," he thought, and at that precise moment, he felt an immense desire to rebuild that house.
He found out who the owner was and offered to carry out the necessary work; the owner agreed, although he couldn't understand what my friend stood to gain. Together they managed to get hold of roof tiles, wood and cement. My friend put his whole heart into the work, though without knowing why or for whom. But as the renovation work progressed, he felt his personal life improving.
By the end of the year, the house was ready. And all his personal problems had been resolved.