It is better
to die for something than to live for nothing
Bob
Jones
Bob Butler lost his legs
in a 1965 land mine explosion in Vietnam. Twenty years later, he was
working in his garage in a town in Arizona when he heard a woman screaming from
a nearby house. He began to roll his wheelchair towards the house but was being
slowed down by the dense of flower around the house. He decided to get out of
his wheelchair and started to crawl through the dirt and bushes. When he got
there, he discovered that a three year old girl was drowning in a swimming
pool. He dived in immediately and rescued the girl whose breathe was nearly
gone. As he put his mouth over her mouth to commence Cardiac Pulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR), he told the mother “I was her arms to get her out of the
pool, it will be okay. I am now her lungs. Together we can make it.” Seconds
afterwards, the little girl coughed, regained consciousness and began to cry.
As they hugged and
rejoiced, Mr. Butler told his story. He said, “When my legs were blown off in
the Vietnam War, I was all alone in a field till a little Vietnamese girl
struggled to drag me into her village. She whispered in broken English ‘its
okay. You can live. I be your legs. Together we can make it.’ I’d like to be
the same to her.”
Wonderful!! Isn’t it? A
cripple had to crawl to save another life. Always have it in mind that no
matter your condition or situation in life, you can still be of help to
somebody somewhere somehow. Learn to love not just in words but in truth and
even in our actions. Yes there are times
when someone would need you to be their legs, their arms, lungs, purse, eye and
most of all their friend. Learn to be a voice to someone, help someone to
laugh, help someone to stay strong in this race called life and you will never
lack helpers too!!
