We should never regret knowing someone. Some relationships will be blessings, others will serve
as lessons.
Everyone
we encounter teaches us something important and there is always a reason
why we meet someone. Some people will test us, some will
use us, and some will teach us; but most importantly some will bring out the best in
us. Here is an inspiring story of kindness that led to the discovery of
Penicillin.
As the story goes, his
name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to
make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog(swamp).
He dropped his tools and ran to the boy. There, mired to his waist in black
muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer
Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings.
An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father
of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my
son's life." "No, I can't
accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off
the offer. At that moment, the
farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your
son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the
farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the
level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father,
he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of."
And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in
time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went
on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken
with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir
Winston Churchill.
By Tim Pedrosa
What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the
money. Love like you've never been
hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's
Heaven on Earth.
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Tim
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