Pay It forward

APJ Sales Comp Winnie Tseng

On a Sunday morning, I lied on the bed and as usual watched TV to really get awake. When I surfed one channel from another, a little girl's birthday wish drew my attention.
"I wish I can walk" said a little girl.

This girl seemingly was not like a toddler at the age of 2 or 3 years. Owing to my curiosity, I stayed at that channel playing the documentary film - a little girl's birthday wish.

The narrator said that she had a fever at her birth because of meningitis. The doctor diagnosed her as a patient of cerebral palsy and epilepsy, leading to her development delays. It had been her birthday wish to be able to walk since she was 3 years old. On her birthday at the age of 8 years old, she made such wishes:

"I wish I can run", said this little girl, "I want to go to Disney Land."

In the film, her parents spent a lot of time and efforts to company the little girl through various rehabilitations. She persistently completed all of them with smiles, tears and finally she went to Hong Kong Disney Land.

It was really a comparatively long journey to her but she made it.

I was touched by the persistence and the greatest love of parents presented in this film. I could not but think that this girl was not the only one having cerebral palsy and epilepsy with development delays. There must be similar kids growing up with families not like this girl's.

Such thoughts pondered me:
Would these children with poor backgrounds need assistance?
There are also other kids required with attention and helps. How could I be helpful to them?

Pondering on such questions motivated me to take up the voluntary service in libraries. I will start telling stories to kids in the library since coming July. I hope that my stories would motivate kids to be positive, enthusiastic and to inherit social service when they grow up.

Pay-it-forward is one of means to make a better tomorrow.