I will simply say: "Just what I need" but not with the tone of the person from your story.
We're so often caught by our depressions, our self-pity, our feelings of failures or loneliness that we miss the real beauty of life and also the real important issues. We tend to dramatize and get used to feeling low, "enjoying" our negativity, nourishing our depression with pessimism, with our dissatisfactions...

Why can't we see that there are people who have real problems, that there are others less fortunate than us who feel blessed and happy with small gestures and common things we take for granted? Why only in these moments we find the way back to our inner self and find comfort? Why only when we see life can be even more harsh, or when we realize we forgot how to be happy with small things, that we start seeing the other side of the coin and look at our life from a different perspective? Aren't we selfish and shallow?

You're so right, Sri. Recently, a very good friend of mine told me to live in the present, as he always does, not get caught by the past, not think too much about the future since it doesn't depend entirely on me and sometimes seems so uncertain.
I know I'm trying, not wanting to let the moments go by. Stories like this one help a lot in understanding that after all it's about perspectives, about the way you choose to see certain aspects of your life, deal with some memories or feelings and move on.

vey heart touching good