Chapter 149: 240 chapters, facing the same window

240 chapters, facing the same window

24o chapters, facing the same window

Liu Guozong

During World War II, in a narrow prison cell of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, two people were imprisoned. The Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp was a hell on earth; here long isolated from the outside world, the prison cell had no sunlight, no flowers, no green leaves, let alone laughter and voices; accompanying them were only darkness and that dark, forever foul-smelling, nauseating air.

Their only way to understand the world was that one-square-foot window in the prison cell.

In darkness and loneliness, in pain and despair, the two people sat together by the window.

One person, his gaze always fixed on the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, or occasionally on the free-spirited small bird flying past the window.

His body may be imprisoned, but his heart is broad and lofty, as free as a bird, his heart also filled? longing for freedom, harboring beautiful hopes for the future. In dire straits he never despaired.

The other person sitting by the window likewise, his gaze was not on the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, nor on that freely flying small bird; of course his heart had no sunshine of hope; he constantly stared at the high wall and barbed wire of the window, in the lonely darkness his heart filled with fear and anxiety, and soon he died in despair.

But the person who continually gazed at the outside scenery through the window survived.

Facing the same life predicament, some despair, some are filled with hope.

The despairing, their vision is shallow, their mind narrow, before them only death.

Those filled with hope in their hearts, their vision is far-reaching, their mind broad, before them lies an endless bright path.

The despairing die; those who harbor hope live.

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