Heart Warming Story 3

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BY CIKGU OH

ONE morning, Sanggat, an eight-year-old pupil of mine knocked on my door; he was here to help me sweep my quarters. He noticed some thick books neatly arranged on my reading table.

Curiously he asked, “Sir, what books are these?”

I told him that those were books that I needed to study for an important exam so that I might go the university someday. He frowned because in a remote area where we were, even a bicycle was unheard of. I tried to explain “university” to him with the help of pictures that looked like a university campus. At that time, Sarawak did not have a university and the nearest one was across the South China Sea, in Peninsular Malaysia.

He was surprised: “But, sir, you are a teacher. Why study?”

Heart Warming Story 2

At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane's departure and standing near the security gate, they hugged and he said, "I love you. I wish you enough."

She said, "Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy."

They kissed good-bye and she left.

He walked over toward the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?"

Heart Warming Story 1

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The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he'd told her was empty. Then she settled in, placed her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against her leg.

It had been a year since Susan, 34, became blind. Due to a medical misdiagnosis she had been rendered sightless, and she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. And all she had to cling to was her husband, Mark.