See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Walt Disney Story.
Life Lesson #2 – Making Choices is Important.
Maria and her family were taking a trip one Saturday to visit her cousin. On the way, her father was nice enough to stop and get some drinks for everyone. After they had been back on the road for a little while, Maria’s brother finished his drink and threw the bottle out the window!
Immediately, their father stopped the car and went back to pick up the empty bottle. When he got back in the car, he said, “Son, don’t you ever throw anything out of a car again! That is called littering.”
Maria spoke up and said, “Yeah, it’s called hurting others, too!” Her father smiled. “I hadn’t really thought about it like that,” he said, “but you may be right!” He had taught Maria and her brother all about HEROES who HELP others, and that the opposite of HELPING is hurting. “It kind of hurts all of us,” he said, “when you throw trash on the road, doesn’t it?” Maria understood perfectly, but her brother said, “What do you mean?” So their dad explained. He said, “When you throw out trash in places where trash should not be, it makes the landscape ugly for people to look at when it should be beautiful, AND then someone has to spend their time picking it up when I’m sure they would rather be doing something else.”
Well, Maria’s brother not only began to understand, he even had an idea about how to HELP. He said, “Dad, would we be HEROES if our family pick up trash like once a month or something?” Well, everyone thought that was a great idea, and that’s exactly what they started doing!
– Jim Lord