00:00Two sick men shared a hospital room, but only one could see out the window.
00:05Every afternoon he described what he saw.
00:08Children playing by the lake, couples walking through the park, birds flying between the trees.
00:15His roommate loved listening, until one thought began bothering him.
00:20Why does he get the window?
00:23Day after day, gratitude slowly became jealousy.
00:26Then one night, the man by the window began struggling to breathe.
00:30His roommate could have called the nurse, but he looked at the window and stayed silent.
00:35By morning, the bed was empty.
00:37Days later, he asked to be moved beside the window.
00:40Finally, the view would be his.
00:42He pulled himself up, looked outside, and froze.
00:45There was no lake, no park, no children, just a brick wall.
00:50Confused, he asked the nurse.
00:51She quietly replied, he was blind.
00:54He invented those stories just to give you something beautiful to imagine.
00:58And suddenly, the man understood what his jealousy had cost him.
01:02Because sometimes, we don't envy what people have.
01:06We envy what we imagine they have, and while comparing our lives to theirs,
01:11we may never realize the beautiful view we're jealous of might not exist at all.
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