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Author Message  spider Member Username: spider Post Number: 865 Registered: 10-2002 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Friday, August 08, 2003 - 03:49 pm:     As we sail this these mighty oceans, we sometimes forget that we have a lasting effect on the people around us. When on land, spider spends a far bit of time as a basketball referee at the famous Albert Park stadium. (the old Albert Park is where BB started in this country). I was having a bite to eat with one of my colleagues after the games the other night, when she mentioned an incident that had happened the previous week. My friend (a lady) is the sometime first aid officer on a certain night. One of the players had landed heavily and bumped his head. By the time she got to him he was pretty groggy, and took a while to answer the question "Do you know where you are?" He wanted to drive himself home, my friend tried to talk him out of it. He compromised by saying that he would have one of his friends drive him. She really wanted him to be checked out at the hospital, she persisted and he gave in. She didn't think any more of it, she was just doing what she thought was right. She ran into that team a week later to find out that an hour and a half after he went to hospital he was rushed into emergency surgery with a brain heamorrhage! If he had gone home he would have died! Her perseverance and powers of persuasion saved that man's life. In our ordinary little lives we don't get a lot of chances to save a life, but we do have an effect on those around us. One of these days I will tell you spider's 'save a life' story. I believe that part of being a successful person is having a positive influence on the world around you. What do you reckon? spider. "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."  mosaic1996 Member Username: mosaic1996 Post Number: 130 Registered: 01-2003 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Friday, August 08, 2003 - 04:19 pm:     Spider, A very touching story. I believe that by assisting and influencing others, you achieve immortality - or at least leave a small, lasting mark on the world. I played basketball as a teenager at Albert Park for the (city) YMCA. Did you play there as a teenager, Cheers, Mosaic  wadda Member Username: wadda Post Number: 101 Registered: 10-2002 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 03:01 pm:     Hey Spider, Totally agree with what you're saying..the hard bit is realising the potential influence one may have on those that one comes into contact with and therefore engaging brain before engaging mouth (or actions). As I grow older (and hopefully much wiser) I have to remind myself of the way my seniors (not necessarily in age) influenced my life and therefore I may well be influencing others in a similar way. Keep the faith. Yours reflectfully, wadda 'This above all to thine own self be true' Hamlet, Act II, Scene III

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