A boy...

This is a story about a "boy" ...

Anyone who saw this boy from a distance, would see a regular, indistinctive, normal boy...

He loved sports. He wasn't tall so he had to work much harder than the rest of the kids... He loved to compete... Even if he started out being the last, he wouldn't stop trying until he was the best. As a teenager, he won many medals especially in swimming and diving competitions. Even though his swimming talents were remarkable, this boy had another dream. He wanted to be a coach, much like the coach that guided him and served as his utmost symbol of respect.

One day, while the boy was driving back home from college, he got distracted. And don't we all? If not preoccupied by our phones, or radios, or some story being told... His distraction however, changed his life... The boy crashed into a truck.. Luckily no one was severely injured.. He felt his knee sore and figured it was from the crash... so he went to get it checked out.

The eighteen yearold boy entered the hospital that day, with the hopes that it was nothing.. but, he left the hospital with a diagnosis of osteosarcoma, cancer that starts at the knee..

Back then, his only chance of survival was to amputate his right leg several inches above his knee.

That changed his life. It changed everything. One might think a person in that position would be exempt from life, for he had no choices to make. His cards were dealt. His dreams were broken. He could never be the man he aspired to become. However, contrary to many's beliefs, the boy created two options...

He could accept his slow demise...

Or fight till the last breath...

He chose to fight, to beat it. He knew it was going to be hard... He knew it was going to kill his energy, might, strength... But he was going to try again... Even if he failed, he was going to try again, and again, and again, and again...

My readers might think he was only trying that hard to ensure his own survival from the battle with cancer.. However that boy's aspirations were much wider... He literally wanted to BEAT cancer... He wanted a miracle... He wanted HOPE...

After training as an amputee, this young boy made a CHOICE... He decided to run accross his whole country... and raise one dollar from every citizen, for cancer research... It was just a dream... It was out of reach...

Considering the circumstances of his amputated leg and fatal heart problem, it was IMPOSSIBLE...

People told him, "You can't do it."
Just like they said, "You can't Cure CANCER."


But the boy wanted exactly that... to make the impossible, not only possible, but beautifully within reach....

On April 20, 1980, the boy started the marathon and completed 3,339 miles...

"...everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried."

On September 1st, the boy was forced to stop because his cancer had spread to his lungs... He had to leave for treatment...Eight days after he had to leave, the Marathon of Hope kept going and raised 24.17 million dollars for Cancer research...
The boy achieved his goal of raising one dollar from every citizen of his country...

One month before he turned 23, the boy passed away... Only immortal as a national hero in his country... and many other countries...

The boy, as we all know him, is Terry Fox...






A young boy, with an illness that weakens every inch of the body, had that much drive to give HOPE.... To do good, for the sake of goodness... The motivation and drive that he had are beyond the capacity of anyone I know.... What happened to us? What happened to Kuwait? What happened to Arabs? What happened to Muslims?

Is this why our religion is superior to the alternatives...? Is this what we are proud of?

A parliment guided by 50 men in which the young generation can't choose five from which whom they trust....
A society fal7a eb bss menu flan oo 3elan oo laish a9elna a7san oo laish a9elhum madre shsalfeta..
Nass so consumed in criticizing other mathahebb that they actually forget to abide by their own beliefs...
Zyadat malls oo malls oo malls oo malls, oo me7tareen mn dbai cuz nabi more malls....

Lets stop blaming those who have the power to Change our country...

If we're SICK of what's happening why not learn from the "TERRY's" of the world and TAKE the power!

Lets change the world... By starting here... eb ourselves, our families, our country...

Rmethan is due to arrive in a couple of days... Lets promise to do good things... Ghair el qur2an... Ghair e9alaat... Those are a given... Lets do more!



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