Everybody's Got A Story

This morning there was an interesting story in the paper. It was true story about a taxi cab driver. He was a doctor for 15 years in India and saved a boy's life by cutting open his throat in order to allow him to breath during encephalitic shock. With Canada being such a multicultural country, we sometimes forget that everyone has a unique story that they bring to the place they live.

The community in which I live, we are aware that everyone comes here with a story. Sometimes it is a story of a loving and supportive family, but other times it can be a story of hurt and abandonment. We are so aware that everyone here has a story and sometimes it is a story that we choose to not always share, such as a doctor who has been forced to become a cab driver.

There is an Amanda Marshall song called Everybody's Got a Story. The one line that sticks in my head the most is this. "Everybody's got a story that can break your heart." Sadly, it's true. Everyone does have a unique story that will break your heart at moments. It will also make you laugh wildly and wish that you could have done something they had the chance to.

It is very hard to see the whole picture for anyone. We don't get to see the whole picture, we just get to see a part. We can't make assumptions about someone because we're not sure what else is a part of their life. There are so many things we want to know, but we can't.

I'm aware that I have a story that I choose to hide a lot of the time in my life. I'm not sure why I feel the need to hide parts of my life, but I do. There will always be something that someone doesn't know about me, although not necessarily out of spite or malice. There are things people won't know because I don't trust them enough to tell them, or if I just don't think they need to know so much about my life.

With the story in the newspaper, I was reminded of the reality of stories in everyone's lives. Most of us don't do something daring enough to warrant an article in the paper, but there are small acts of heroism every day that become a part of our story.