See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Chuck Norris Story.
Life Lesson #94 – If You Don’t Like It, Change It.
Nicholas always knew he could be a better student, so at the beginning of this school year he decided he would start doing his best at everything. His class had a history project due on Friday, and he had been working on it for over three weeks now. When Friday came, his was the best one in the class!
On the way home that day, a boy from his class and two boys from another class called him over to talk with him. They started making fun of him. That’s when the boy from his class grabbed Nicholas’ backpack and began taking things out of it. He started throwing the things in different directions as hard as he could. The other boys just laughed.
Across the street from where all this was taking place was another classmate, Rachel, who had just gotten home and saw the whole thing from her living room window. That’s when she quickly but calmly went outside and just stood there looking at the boys. “How much of your lives are you going to waste by being losers,” she asked? “Losers!? We’re not losers,” said one of the boys! “Then name one thing” she said, “just one, that doesn’t spell loser.” You know what, they couldn’t. They couldn’t think of an answer at all! “Okay, so why don’t start thinking of ways to HELP other people instead of hurting them,” she said, as she HELPED Nicholas pick up his things.
The three boys quickly and quietly went somewhere else, and at least one of them really gave some thought to what Rachel had said. It took a lot of courage, but the next day, he saw Rachel at school and said, “Thanks.” He told her that what had she said made a lot of sense. Just like Nicholas had decided at the beginning of the school year to start doing his best in school, the other boy decided that day to start doing his best to become a HERO!
– Jim Lord