Touched

I just ran into an old colleague of mine. We used to work together in the lab. She stopped me in the hallway to tell me that she received all of my emails from Uzbekistan, and that she printed them all to keep for her children to read when they are older. She read them some of my stories, including my visit to the TB Sanitorium for children and the pcitures they drew of what a world without TB would look like. She told them about the small boy who won the prize of a soccer ball for his picture, and how happy this made him. The story touched her son so much that he now wants to send soccer balls to children who need them. I was really touched to hear this. Even if I made no difference whatsoever in Uzbekistan, I might have done something to change the way a little Canadian boy sees the world. Maybe he will grow up to change the world!