Mark and Susan married for several years, a normal and happy family but one day, trouble struck them, Suzan suddenly started having severe headaches and eye pain, blurred vision, and over the next few weeks the inevitable happened produced, Suzan, an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, became blind. Now blind, she became really depressed and fell into a deep slowness of despair, and the lack of sight stopped her from enjoying everything around her.
From the moment Suzan became totally blind, Mark encouraged her daily that he would not leave her and help her get through this trouble well and one day he said to her:
– Listen, my dear, I love you so much and to me you are the same person I married and you have to understand that I will stay by your side and help you learn and get through, regardless of the fact that you are blind.
And so they both started working hard on it. Mark would go to the office with her every day, show her how to do his job, and then go to work at a military base.
After several months of daily repetitions Mark one day told her:
– Susan, I’m very sorry, but I arrive at work too late. You will have to start going to the office on your own.
Suzan, very scared, answered him:
– There is no way I can ride the bus alone, walk the streets, enter the office building, climb the stairs alone, and work in the office and do all these things on my own.
Seeing that Suzan was so distrustful of her, Mark stepped in to calm her down and said:
– Stay calm dear, I will stay beside you until you learn to become strong.
And so they did it for several more months in a row. The day came when Mark and Suzan decided together that Suzan finally knew enough, and she was on her own. So one Monday, Suzan by herself walked around the block, got on the bus, climbed the stairs without any problems, repeating Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday everything was going amazingly well.
After a few months of going to work alone, it was one Friday when, while getting on the bus, the bus driver suddenly paid her a compliment saying:
– You are a very lucky woman.
Suzan, hesitating a little, answers easily, to the bus driver, I am a blind woman. Immediately the driver answered:
– Well yes ma’am you are right but every day for the last few months you have boarded the bus there is a man standing on the street corner in military uniform never taking his eyes off you.
– When you walk on the sidewalk, it follows your every step carefully, like a hawk, and when you cross the street, if you do it at the right time, it also follows you like a hawk when you go up the stairs, when you open your door, when you enter and immediately as the door closes, he stands up, greets you, and blows you a kiss, and then turns and walks away.
Suddenly, Susan understood that this was Mark, her husband, and she also understood that he had followed her tirelessly all this time, that she was never alone, and that he loved her.
And that’s exactly what marriage is all about, to really protect each other, to focus on each other, to listen to each other, to build each other up, to encourage each other, that’s how a marriage is kept strong and beautiful.
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