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...
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 head, 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 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.
Source: Submitted by a Writer of AL-Islaah Publications.
Source: Submitted by a Writer of AL-Islaah Publications.