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Spirituality
Inspirational Stories
A World of Smiles
(© Lewis Frost)
About ten years ago when I was an
undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University's Museum of Natural
History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly
couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I
saw that she was kind of perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs,
just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I
was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As
I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the
cutest, largest smile I have ever seen. All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I
saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a
completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy
college student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago. I'm a
successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the
world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught
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