Will and determination
A small village school house heated paunchy old-fashioned stove. Duty of the young boy was to come to school early in the morning, melt the stove and warm the room before the arrival of the teacher and their classmates.
Once, coming to school, the children saw the building engulfed in flames. Little boy was dragged from a burning house, unconscious. He received extensive burns to the lower body and was taken to a nearby hospital.
Lying in bed, burned, located in a semi-conscious boy heard the doctor gently told his mother that her son would surely die, and it will be the best outcome, because fire disfigured his whole lower body.
But the brave boy did not want to die. He decided to survive, and to the surprise of the doctor, he did it. When the threat of death had passed, he once overheard a loud conversation between the doctor and mother. The doctor said that it would be better if the boy died because he was doomed to remain a cripple - the lower limbs will not work.
And brave boy again made an important decision. It will not be a cripple.Unfortunately, he was unable to move. Its dragging, hanging thin legs refused to obey.
Finally he was discharged from the hospital. Every day the mother to massage his little legs, but the result remained the same. Nevertheless, the boy did not despair.
If he was not in bed, it was confined to a wheelchair. Once on a sunny day, his mother took him into the yard, that he breathed fresh air. Instead of sitting in a wheelchair, he slipped from her and began to crawl through the grass.
He crawled to the fence on the boundary of their plot. With great effort he got up and began slowly, step by step, moving along the fence, resolved to learn to walk. He did this every day, so close to the fence appeared trampled path. He passionately wanted to infuse life into their callous feet.
Daily massages, his iron will and determination to do his job - he learned to stand, then, let the uncertain and stumbling, to walk, finally, to walk independently, and ultimately - to run.
He was back in school, then run it - to run because he felt a real joy from it. Later, in college, he organized a team of jogging.
And still later, at Madison Square Garden this young man, who, according to the doctor, was not supposed to survive, let alone walk - this courageous strong-willed young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the mile faster than anyone else.
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