Love. It’s defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
But is love only a feeling? Sometimes, that love requires you to prove your feelings through an action of selflessness or bravery.
Imagine your loved one is in serious danger. Would you take a bullet to save this person’s life?
In the following excerpt from Kubik.org, a little boy gives his sister the greatest gift of all.
Read the passage below.
Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it if it will save Liza.”
As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”
Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give her all his blood
Gives you goosebumps, doesn’t it?
The innocence of children is unmatched. To them, the whole world is so fresh and new, and everything is undiscovered. They don’t yet understand the way our world works.
And that’s what makes our story so great.
This little boy believed he was doomed to die. But he was willing to do anything to save his big sister.
How many of you could say the same?
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