There is one incident in my life that makes me want to say thank you to the person involved.

My story happened in June, 1975. It began when my family was finally notified that we had successfully met all the requirements to emigrate (移民) to Canada.

We immediately set about selling our household goods to have enough money to start our life in a new country.

However, our government only allowed us to use a small portion of the money to pay for the flight tickets. The rest was required to be sent directly to a bank account in Canada. The only cash we were allowed to take along with us was $16.

For me and the children, this was our first time out of the country and the first time to be travelling by plane. We were all very amazed by everything new we were experiencing. We did not yet have TVs in our home country. So we were excited about watching the in-flight movies.

On the flight, the stewardess came around to distribute the headphones to passengers. But since we were flying economy class, we were told that the headphones cost $1.

The kids looked at us longingly and asked if they could have a dollar for a set of headphones which they would share. Knowing we had only $16 with us in cash until we reached Canada, I knew that we could not afford to waste the money on headphones — not even one set.

When we explained our dilemma to the kids, they accepted it without complaint. But our disappointment must have shown clearly. A gentleman nearby handed his headphones to us, smiling, without saying a word.

The kids’ faces lit up with joy.

This incident definitely had a powerful effect on me and our children.

4 . A family has raised more than $250,000 for a Domino’s delivery driver, who was injured on Feb. 3 while delivering the family’s food. Barbara Gillespie’s _________ was caught on the family’s home security video and has become a hit, being _________ over 3 million times on TikTok.

The 72-year-old can be seen _________ after the fall and _________ for dropping the food while a member of the household _________ to help. “I open the door and there she is just _________ on the ground trying to get up,” Kevin Keighron, the homeowner, said. “She was more worried about the _________ than anything else. But I said, ‘I don’t care about the food. I care about you.’”

Kevin Keighron and his wife Lacey Klein, of South Carolina, _________ a GoFundMe to leave an extra tip for Gillespie and over 14,000 people have since _________. Over $250,000 has been raised to the campaign for Gillespie.

“We thought we would get her a bigger tip and bring it to her. We never __________ to get as much as we did,” said Lacey Klein. “We were just so __________ to be able to tell her the next day.”

Gillespie said she is in awe of the amount of money donated to her by __________. “I almost gave up on people because so many people out there today are so __________,” said Gillespie. “But here we got loving and __________ people. They care about someone else… about a(n) __________ woman.”

5 . Eighteen-year-old David Aguilar from Andorra was born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition but that has never stopped him from doing anything he wanted to do including typing on a computer with his partial arm.

Like most kids, David was a LEGO fan and he loved building cars, boats, planes, and motorbikes. But David also knew that he looked different and wanted to do something about it. “As a child I was very nervous to be in front of other guys, because I was different, but that didn’t stop me believing in my dreams,” David said. “I wanted to... see myself in the mirror like I see other guys, with two hands.”

He loved LEGO so much that he wanted to make them a part of himself, so at the age of 9, he built his first prosthetic (假肢的) arm out of the colorful bricks. But it wasn’t particularly strong or functional.

He waited until he was 18 to try again. Using LEGO pieces, David built a prosthetic arm that he called the MK1. This multipurpose prosthetic even had a way to grasp items, but David wanted to keep improving his arm and he made a few more versions. His fourth and current version is a colorful red and yellow fully functional robotic arm that has a bendable elbow joint and flexible grabber built entirely from a LEGO Technic airplane kit.

All of the MK versions are on display in David’s university dorm room that is also decorated with Star Wars posters. David wants to show people that nothing is impossible even if you have a disability.

David plans to create affordable prosthetics for people who need them, saying, “I would try to give them a prosthetic, even if it’s for free, to make them feel like a normal person.”

Ken Scott kicked of the covers and leapt out of bed at his home in the Rocky Mountain town of Mullan,Idaho.It was 6 a.m.on January 7, 2020, and he was on a mission: He’d just heard on the radio that the nearby Silver Mountain Resort had been blessed with nearly a foot and a half of new snow. As a ski addict who’d worked in the industry for the past 30 years as a ski patroller (滑雪巡逻员)and equipment salesperson, he didn’t want to miss this perfect skiing chance. These conditions are what skiers live for-even experienced and skilled as Scott, who, at 55, still skied 100 days a year.

When Scott reached Silver Mountain’s locker room, he ran into his friend Warren, 58, a former ski instructor who had also been a regular on these slopes for more than two decades.

“Can you believe it?” he said as they changed into their boots. “Sixteen inches! Are you ready?”

For the next hour, the pair skied on various runs under a lightly gloomy sky, making fresh tracks. They were both in a playful mood. Finally, they reached 16-to-1, an expert-level trail, which was now open. It had been closed all season over concerns that skiers might cause an avalanche (雪崩). But that morning, patrollers had cleared loose snow on the peak, reducing the chance of a snowslide.

“What do you think?” asked Warren.

“Let’s go for it!” Scott replied.

When they reached the top of 16-to-1, Warren excitedly looked back at Scott. The huge, toothy grin on his bearded face was what he needed. He pointed his skis downhill and took off. So thrilled were they that they isolated everything around them. Flying on the trail, despite the biting wind, their hearts burnt with passion for this great skiing. Whoomph! A sudden roar from behind nearly deafened them.

In a second, they realized what was happening.

“Bring help! Ken was missing,” Warren said anxiously on the phone.

7 . I was back to my hometown, South Carolina. I had just made the trip in a 20-year-old van with just my dog for company in need of about all 1,000 miles of_________.

I had learned only a day or two before that my beloved_________, Billy, had been killed. One of his friends had driven me to a grocery store to get something_________. As I came out of the store, an older woman _________ me. Without saying much, she walked up to me and _________ me in the tightest hug.

“I read about your brother in the paper,” she said with a trembling _________. “I_________ for him, and I’m going to pray for you, too.” I don’t know who she was or how she knew who I was but this _________ sensed my grief and_________ enough to reach out to me.

Since then, I have__________ her often. I__________ her face and the kindness in her eyes. Sometimes I __________ whether she was an angel. Yes, she__________ was.

Give roses to others and the lasting fragrance will__________ in one’s hands. This time I realize that great__________ to warm others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Every early morning Gleen would run to school to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and classmates arrived. Their little schoolhouse was heated by an old- fashioned coal stove in winter.

One chilly morning, the teacher and students arrived, only to find the schoolhouse in flames. Gleen was dragged out of the flaming building, unconscious. The lower half of his body was badly burned and he was immediately sent to a nearby hospital. From his bed, Gleen faintly heard the doctor talking to his parents. “He could hardly survive, ” the doctor said in a low voice, “for the terrible fire had destroyed the lower half of his body. ”

“I don’t want to die, mum. ” Gleen told his mother. He was determined to survive. To the doctor’s amazement, he did survive. When the serious danger was past, he again heard the doctor and his parents speaking quietly. “He was bound to be disabled for life, ” the doctor whispered, “since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body. He can’t walk like a normal person. ”

“I will walk, dad. ” Gleen told his father. Once more, the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be disabled. But unfortunately, he has no feeling from the waist down. His thin legs just hung there, lifeless. Ultimately, he was discharged from the hospital.

Back home, Gleen’s mother would squeeze and rub his little legs every day, hoping to help them recover, but it made little difference. He was either in bed or attached to a wheelchair. Yet his determination that he would walk never faded. Instead, he kept thinking about how to make himself stand up and walk again.

On a lovely summer day, as usual, Gleen was wheeled out into the yard for some fresh air, where his father had just built a fence by driving the stakes (木桩) into the grassland. Sitting in the wheelchair, Gleen was staring at the fence around the yard.

It occurred to him that he could make the most of the fence.

After that, Gleen began to do this every day until he made a flat path beside the fence.

9 . The job description of a postman doesn’t always include travelling through thick forests, fast-flowing waters and occasionally being run after by wild animals, but for D. Sivan, that is exactly what it is.

Every day for 30 years, this humble postman has been delivering post to some of the most remote villages in Coonoor which are inaccessible by road. Carrying the mail, he walks along the Nilgiri Mountain Railway track, walking through thick forests, crossing slippery streams and walking on railway bridges. Having travelled through the difficult path for 30 years, Mr. Sivan has grown fond of the wild animals he encounters on his daily walks, going so far as to say that they’ve all become his friends. But even his friends have occasionally caused him some trouble, with an elephant once having run after him. He was saved by a truck driver who spotted him and honked at the elephant. The animals recognize him now, though.

As the years rolled by, emails started replacing letter writing. And as more and more people moved from the Nilgiri hills to the plains-the towns of Mettupalayam and Coimbatore, Sivan’s bag became lighter and lighter every day. Many weeks he ended up carrying just 3-4 letter to each village.

One day Sivan noticed that a man to whom he was supposed to deliver his pension had moved to Coimbatore. The man had fallen very sick and was hospitalized. Sivan tracked down the hospital, travelled 80 kms by bus and later car, and delivered the pension. The kind postman even paid for the whole trip himself!

Not all heroes wear a cape(披风);some have white hair and carry a simple bag full of letters. Not all heroes write cool stories on Instagram; some just sit outside a door and read out a son’s letter to his mother.

“Bye, Mom! Don’t forget to make my pie!” shouted 12-year-old Jake after kissing his mother, Susan, goodbye.

He was anxiously waiting for the bus. Moments later, the bus pulled over, and Jake hopped in, assuming it was just going to be an ordinary ride to school. “Luckily, Mom gave me $6. Otherwise I’d have to walk all the way to school,” he thought.

The bus came to a stop, picking up Christel, a 56-year-old woman from the next stop. She was smelly and looked dirty. Some passengers frowned at her, but she was least bothered about them. Moments later, she trembled through the crowd toward an empty seat next to Jake.

“Ticket, please?!” the conductor said loudly, staring at her. Christel’s face slowly started to go red. “One second, I’m looking for my purse,” she replied. “I...uh...I don’t have money. I forgot to bring my purse,” Christel stammered (结结巴巴地说), embarrassed.

“Lady, this is not a charity ride that picks up beggars for free. I’m stopping the bus right now. Get out!” yelled the conductor as the crowd of passengers turned toward Christel all at once.

Jake witnessed everything and was disappointed at how the conductor treated the poor woman. Then he remembered he still had some change. “Here is your $3...Give her a ticket,” he said to the conductor, throwing the money into his hand.

“Thank you, sweetheart. I am forever grateful to you! What is your name, dear?” said Christel.

“I’m Jake. That’s okay. I just did what I should do,” replied Jake, taking Christel’s words of gratitude casually.

They talked about Jake’s school life. “I want to become a baseball player, but my school does not have such facilities. I don’t want to trouble my mom. She’s already working hard in the restaurant. My father passed away in an accident two years ago,” revealed Jake.

“Alright, Grandma! We’ve arrived at my school. I’ll leave now. Bye-bye!”

Christel was touched by Jake’s warm heart. She stared a second time at his school, watching him disappear inside the gate.

The next day Christel paid a surprising visit to the school in her expensive car.

Jake didn’t realize a bigger surprise was waiting for him outside the principal’s office.