您會做什麼？
您會做什麼？….您做出選擇。 不要尋找一個警句，那裡不是一个。 無論如何讀它。 我的問題是： 您是否會做出同一個選擇？
在一頓籌款的晚餐為服務孩子以學習障礙的學校，父親其中一名學生發表了由所有不会忘記出席的一次演說。
在讚頌學校和它熱忱的職員以後，他提供了一個問題： 「當沒干涉由外部影響，一切自然做以完美。 我的兒子， Shay，不可能學會事，其他孩子。 他不可能瞭解事，其他孩子。 那裡事自然順序在我的兒子？」
觀眾由詢問平定。
父親繼續了。 「我相信，當孩子喜歡Shay時，精神上是，并且完全失去能力進入世界，機會體會真實的人類本性提出自己，并且它進來方式其他人款待那個孩子」。
然後他講以下故事：
Shay和他的父親走了通過公園，有些男孩Shay知道打棒球。 被要求的Shay， 「您認為他們將讓我演奏？」 Shay的父親知道大多男孩在他們的隊不會想要某人像Shay，但是父親也瞭解，如果他的兒子允許演奏，它將給他其他和一些信心將接受的大量需求的歸屬感竟管他的障礙。
Shay的父親在領域接近了其中一個男孩并且要求(不期望)，如果Shay可能演奏。 男孩四周尋找教導和說， 「我們由六奔跑是丟失的，并且比賽在第八局。 我猜測他可以是在我們的隊，并且我們將設法投入他對棒在第九局」。
Shay奮鬥了對隊的長凳，并且，與開朗的笑，穿上了隊襯衣。 他的父親觀看與一滴小淚花在他的眼睛和溫暖在他的心臟。 男孩看了父親的喜悅在他的兒子被接受。 在第八局底部， Shay的隊得了幾分，但仍然是後邊由三。 在第九局的上面， Shay投入了手套并且充當右場。 即使命中沒有來他的方式，他是明顯地欲死欲仙的是在比賽和在領域，咧嘴從耳朵到耳朵，因為他的父親揮動對他從立場。 In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to w in the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyon e from the stands and both teams started yelling, “Shay, run to first! Run to first!” Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second!” Catching his breath, Shay awkwa rdly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, “Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay”
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning hi m in the direction of third base, and shouted, “Run to third! Shay, run to third!”
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, “Shay, run home! Run home!” Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.
“That day”, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, “the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world”.
Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.
If you’re thinking about telling others about this message, chances are that you’re probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t the “appropriate” ones to receive this type of message.
Well, the person who wrote this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the “natural order of things.” So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:
1. Do nothing
2. Pass along this message to others
May your day, be a Shay Day.
(This was shared with me and I’m sharing it with you.)
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