Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A story written by O'Henry

                                       A story written by O'Henry

There was a couple. Lady was suffering from serious illness.
She was admitted to hospital. She was not responding to any medicines. Lying on bed, through window she was always seeing a tree.
As it was winter, tree was shedding its leaves. Lying on bed, she was thinking that when the tree sheds all of its leaves, then she is going to die. She knew tree will shed all of its leaves in near future and so sure is her death.
She had shared her feeling with her husband too. In order to make her to think positively, her husband had put a painting of leaf on the tree without wife's knowledge.
Wife was not aware of that. Tree had shed all of its leaves, but this leaf which was artificial , kept on sticking to tree.
Wife could not make the difference between natural one and artificial one. Soon, there were small buds started emerging on the bark of tree.
Seeing that , even she regained hope for her survival and soon she started responding to medicines. She got discharged from hospital.
First thing she had done was to visit the tree which has helped her . She came to know that it was the painting of leaf which was there all the time. But she didnt lose hope this time.