Thought have wings.

You are blissfully wedded. You share such beautiful happiness with the one you love. You desire to expand your love. Through the joys of love you conceive a child. What a delightful gift of love it is!

Next nine months are filled with such glowing, radiant expectation. Lovely plans for the new member of your family takes precedence over all other things. You look forward happily to his arrival.

However, happiness is never guaranteed. We can never know what the future may bring. The future can be hazarduous. Nevertheless, we can to a certain degree ensure that life can be happy and successful if we know the many potholes in life and know ways to avoid or overcome them. We can choose to equip ourselves in readiness for such potholes or we can leave things to luck. Of course, there are those whose path is smooth sailing all the way.

One of the potholes in life is careless thinking. Thinking is important as whatever the mind thinks, its thoughts can become reality.

To illustrate, allow me to tell you a true story. Many years ago, my parents took me to visit a newly married couple. The couple was fortunate and the doctor confirmed that the lucky lady was pregnant. Plans were made for the child's arrival. Clothes, a cot and a wardrobe were bought.

"What lovely knobby eyes this wardrobe has!" The lady exclaimed as she touched those smooth shining knobs on the door..

The mother was aghast at her words. Why should she be so upset by her daughter's thought.She believed strongly, like most elderly women then, that the thought of those kind of eyes can be transferred to the unborn child.

Was it superstition? Maybe. I had once thought it to be nothing more than that.

The incident was forgotten until the day the child was born. He was born with two big bulging eyes.

With such eyes, especially if one is sensitive, there are times when other kids may make fun of one's looks and make one's life miserable.

Of course, it does not mean the end of happiness. The child may even make it into an asset with the proper wit and humour. Well, Yul Branner became a successful actor with his bald head!

In fact, when I was a trainee teacher, there was another trainee teacher who had the same bulging eyes. He was successful as a teacher and he was one of the more cheerful people in our group. In his sleep, he looked at us whenever we took at look at him.

However, would it not be nice to have ordinary eyes like everybody else? Well, if you have experienced or know of such things, please share them with us so that we may tread our path through life with better understanding.