Subject: FW: I chose Forward, What about you?
What would you do?
You make the choice Don't look for a punch line.
There isn't one. Read it anyway.
My question to all of you is: Would you have
made
the same choice?
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves
learning disabled
children, the father of one of the students
delivered a speech that
would never be forgotten by all who attended.
After extolling the
school and its dedicated staff, he offered a
question.
"When not interfered with by outside influences,
everything nature
does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay,
cannot learn things
as other children do. He cannot understand
things as other
children do. Where is the natural order of
things in my son?"
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. "I believe, that when a
child like Shay comes
into the
world, an opportunity to realize true human
nature presents itself,
and it comes, in the way other people treat that
child."
Then he told the following story: Shay and his
father had walked past
a park where some boys Shay knew were playing
baseball.
Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?"
Shay's father knew that most of the boys would
not want someone
like Shay on their team, but the father also
understood that if
his son were allowed to play, it would give him
a much-needed
sense of belonging. Shay's father approached
one of the boys
on the field and asked if Shay could play.
The boy looked around for guidance and, getting
none, he took
matter into his own hands and said, "We're
losing by six runs
and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he
can be on our
team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the
ninth inning."
In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team
scored a few runs
but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a
glove and played in the
outfield. Even though no hits came his way, he
was obviously
ecstatic just to be in the game and on the
field, grinning from ear to
ear as his father waved to him from the stands.
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, let Shay bat and give away
their chance to win the
game?
Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone
knew that a hit
was all but impossible 'cause 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 moved in
a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay
could at least be
able to 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 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 took the ball and turned
and threw the ball
on a high arc to right field, far beyond the
reach of the first
baseman.
Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first!
Run to first!"
Never in his life had Shay ever made it to first
base. He
scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and
startled.
Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!"
By the time Shay rounded first base, the right
fielder had the ball.
He could have thrown the ball to the
second-baseman
for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's
intentions and
intentionally threw the ball high and far over
the third-baseman's
head.
Shay ran toward second base as the runners ahead
of him
deliriously circled the bases toward home.
Shay reached second base, the opposing shortstop
ran to him,
turned him in the direction of third base, and
shouted, "Run to
third!"
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams
were screaming, "Shay, 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."
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 think twice about sharing.
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 forwarding this
message, chances are that
you're probably sorting out the people on your
address list that
aren't the appropriate" ones to receive this
type of message.
Well, the person who sent you 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
that opportunity, and leave the world a little bit
colder in the process?
You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward
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