A prosperous businessman driving along the highway collided with a truck. He was hospitalized for some weeks and was on the mend. In the meantime, his wife had received half a dozen letters of condolence from people who had heard that she had lost her husband. She was upset because he was very much alive.

She gave her husband the letters to read and one thing struck him. There was hardly a word in them about him: everything was difference whether he was around or not. ” It made him think”.