Perspective

"Mom would often talk about a refugee boy she'd met in a hospital in Afghanistan. He was the victim of a land mine and had lost a leg. She said to him that she brought greetings to him from schoolchildren in New York.

" 'Tell them not to worry about me,' this little boy told her from his hospital bed. 'I still have one leg.'"

 - Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club