[Eiri Yuki]'s diary

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Written about Monday 2006-11-27
Written: (6570 days ago)

["""""]PLEASE READ IT["""""]

Two Choices

What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?"

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. "I believe that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child."

Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning."

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!" Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, "Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay"

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third! Shay, run to third!"

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, "Shay, run home! Run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.

"That day", said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world".

Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the "appropriate" ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things." So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.

You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward
May your day, be a Shay Day.

842194 Link to this entry
Written about Monday 2006-08-21
Written: (6667 days ago)

7 more free days till school i'm not scard like some peopel not to be mean to any one on the coment,

but i might have advice for thouse that are going to a new school or are scard of the new grade that ther going in to and if ther not going to see ther friends agean in some time

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Written about Monday 2006-07-17
Written: (6703 days ago)

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[If you REALLY LIKE SOMEONE right now AND MISS THEM and can't get them out of your head then re-post this within 1 mintute and whoever you are missing will surprise you.]

818961 Link to this entry
Written about Tuesday 2006-07-04
Written: (6716 days ago)

see ya all tomarro

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Written about Friday 2006-03-24
Written: (6819 days ago)

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being sick dose not work out did i ever say many ppl love to hit me i'm not saying on the face or back yeah i maen my ASS dane my ass is offlimets to many ppl now only if they stoped and the ppl that my ass is open to is

1 [Erykun] <-- girl friend
2 my bf <-- best friend
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6 FLAFFY
7 Billybob

766419 Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2006-03-22
Written: (6820 days ago)

A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage.

The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholisim is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshipped Satan.

A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.

* If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness. *
[Everyone Deserves HAPPINESS!]

Post this in your house or diary if you beleive the same.

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Written about Monday 2006-03-20
Written: (6823 days ago)

i HATE the gards ya know what they can kiss my ass

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Written about Friday 2005-11-11
Written: (6952 days ago)

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i was so bord it wasent funny the day wa soooooooooooo boring i cudent go on caz no one was on and erin wasent erthter T.T ahh well now my boobs hert caz the only thing i cud do was jump around T.T

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688097 Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2005-10-26
Written: (6967 days ago)

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639430 Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2005-08-05
Written: (7049 days ago)

life stinks but when your having sex life is gooooood

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Written about Wednesday 2005-08-03
Written: (7051 days ago)

my last ever being on losers is to stey that whay ,and not chang unless i change

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Written about Monday 2005-08-01
Written: (7053 days ago)

My dear shuichi i gone and never coming back and now i will not say whan i am going so know one will know. melissa i love you and no thing can chang that ryu i am sory i love you to but mel is my sweet lover i need her i cant not type right with out her mei i love you
dont leve me pleas mel *crying off line* ryu i need your help to keep me fro killing mt self .Oh [Erykun] *hugs* [Claude K Winchester] help me im falling a part shuichis love is gone and <img:never coming back.

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Shuichi loved us all mosty me and ryu!

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Missing: </h3>

636111 Link to this entry
Written about Sunday 2005-07-31
Written: (7054 days ago)

Shuichi i gone and so will my life shuichi is my every thing and i cant live with out her mel dont leve me i love you

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Written about Saturday 2005-07-30
Written: (7055 days ago)

my love is one of a no others

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