There was a little boy in Canada, Ryan Healy Jack, who one day saw on television that thousands of children in Africa had no water to drink, and when they were so thirsty, they went to drink dirty water that remained in the water recesses and even the urine of livestock! Ryan, 6, widened his eyes. He didn't believe that there would be people in the world who didn't have clean water to drink and would die because of it. He was very sad.
Suddenly, the phrase "70 bucks can build a well" came out of the TV that excited Ryan. "I must dig a well for them." He thought, "I'm going to bring 70 bucks tomorrow." ”
After the TV show, he couldn't wait to reach out to his mother, "Mom, give me 70 yuan." In the face of Ryan's request, Mom didn't take it seriously. Ryan walked away in frustration. But throughout the day, the images of African children dying of hunger and thirst on television filled his mind.
At dinner, Ryan mentioned the incident to his parents again. "No," said Mom, "70 bucks won't solve the problem there." Besides, you are also a child, you do not have this ability! "Ryan turned his eyes to his father for help." It's a ridiculous idea, Ryan..." Dad wanted to go on, and Ryan cried out, "You don't understand at all!" People there don't have clean water to drink, children are dying, and they need the money! ”
Ryan had to ask his parents every day, as if he wouldn't be able to live without giving him the 70 bucks.
Ryan's mom and dad had to seriously discuss the matter, and then they told Ryan, "If you really want it, you can earn it yourself, like cleaning the room and cleaning up the garbage, and we'll pay you." ”
Ryan's first task was to suck on the carpet. After working for more than two hours, after his mother's "acceptance", Ryan had two dollars more in his piggy bank.
Since then, Ryan has often used his spare time to do housework. Gradually, everyone in the family became aware of Ryan's dream. The grandfather scolded his son and said, "Why don't you just give him seventy yuan!" Ryan's dad said, "The idea of a child is so ridiculous that it's impossible!" The main purpose of this is to exercise his ability to work. He'll get bored soon. The mother also echoed: "This must be a dream, a dream of a 6-year-old child, a dream that is impossible to achieve... Who would take this kind of wild thinking seriously? ”
But half a year later, instead of giving up, Ryan worked harder. Whenever Mom and Dad urged him to stop, Ryan said, "Let me do it a little longer, I must make enough money to dig a well for african children!" ”
Every day before going to bed, Ryan prayed that everyone in Africa would drink clean water.
People living nearby learned of Ryan's dream, were touched by Ryan's persistence, and joined the activity of "digging a well for African children". Soon, Ryan's story appeared in the Kemptville Forward newspaper, titled "Ryan's Well." Subsequently, the Ottawa Citizen published the same story. Ryan's story began to spread rapidly across Canada, with television stations constantly asking for interviews.
A week later, a strange letter appeared in the mailbox of Ryan's house with Ryan's well in it, a check for $250,000, and a note: "I wish I could do more." ”
In less than a month, tens of millions of dollars were sent to support Ryan's dream. Five years later, this dream has become a cause for tens of thousands of people. The ordinary boy Ryan was dubbed the "soul of Canada" by the media. On September 30, 2002, he received the National Medal of Honor from The Governor-General of Canada Clarkson, and in October of the same year, as the only Canadian, he was named one of the "Top Ten Teenage Heroes of North America". Today, his dream has largely come true, with 56 percent of people in Uganda, Africa, where water scarcity is most severe, access to pure well water.
A reporter asked, "What makes you insist on doing this?" Ryan said: "I dream of a day when people in Africa can drink clean water." It's a big dream. But I know that as long as you sincerely yearn and work hard, everyone can achieve their dreams. I firmly believe that nothing in this world is impossible, and it turns out that it is, as long as you want to do it, you can do it! ”
Dreams and reality are different and distant, excluding accidental uncertainties, most of the reasons are because we dare not and are unwilling to believe "illusory" dreams. But Ryan's experience tells us that in this world, as long as there are dreams, as long as there is perseverance, there is no impossible wish.