The Kindness of Strangers

Read this first.

Before I heard about this, I must admit I’d become quite disillusioned with humanity in general. All you see in the news is people harming each other, people losing their jobs rather than their bosses travel business class as opposed to first class. Then this happens.

Let me shorten it for you who didn’t bother clicking the link above or reading the story. Jamie Murphy is an 11 year old who has Scoliosis and spina bifida. She is, to be quite frank about it, dying. And due to cutbacks in the Irish budget, Crumlin Children’s Hospital has closed it’s surgery doors. There was no guarantee she would get the surgery she desperately needs.

So her family opened a bank account to raise the £50,000 needed for her to get the surgery in the UK. It sounded, to me, like a long shot, hoping for people to donate. Then an anonymous stranger contaed €120,000 in one lump sum. Thanks to him/her, Jamie has a chance to live.

In a world so dark and filled with terrorism, wars, the problems in Iran…It’s nice to know that little miracles can happen.