with erno
anyway, this picture is really the point of this blog. that’s erno. he’s 17, well over 6 ft, strikingly handsome, in short, gorgeous!
and he has hodgkins lymphoma.
one night a month ago, he was still playing on the school’s rugby team, the next morning he woke up with welts on his neck which turned out to be cancer. fortunately his prognosis is good and with treatment, he can look forward to a cure. he sat at my table with his dad and equally gorgeous mom who looked more like his sister. the event was a fundraiser for reach for a dream and his dream was to get a laptop which he was well-behaved enough not to rip open and inspect the moment he received it. of course, everyone else at the table had no such qualms and promptly encouraged him to do just that.
i guess what i’m saying is that i get it. due to my job, i get to make a small difference. and it doesn’t always mean that i jump off a cliff, or scrub toilets. sometimes just making the trek through traffic and showing up is also ok. because of erno and people like him. that’s why.
mr milton said it best: “they also serve, who only stand and wait.”
You make a good point. Sometimes things that seem like a mission are definitely worth the schlep. Erno looks pleased that you trekked through the traffic too.
thanks for stopping by tamara. seems we might meet soon at the bloggirls meet up!
I’ve heard the phrase “the mundaneity of evil”, referring to how ordinary it can be, but perhaps the same is true of good: It can be something completely ordinary, and yet somehow it is transformed into something extraordinary. Glad you got to be extraordinary, Sass.
thanks scott! i guess all we can do is hope for lots of extraordinary moments.