About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college,
I was working as an intern at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One
day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly
couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of
perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a heard,
neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the
at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I
took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have
ever seen. All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this
beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a
completely new sense of what life is all
about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her
world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago. I’m a successful
business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of
the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life
that she taught me.
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