I never expected that emptying my savings for a stranger would lead to the most extraordinary moment of my life.For years, I’d saved every penny to buy my dream car—a cherry-red Mustang GT. I lived frugally, skipping luxuries, all for that goal. Just two months away from affording it, everything changed.One morning, I passed a little girl I’d seen before, sitting on the stoop of a run-down apartment. That evening, she was sobbing, begging strangers to help her sick father. Everyone ignored her,
Something in her desperation struck me. I followed her to their tiny apartment, where her father lay pale and barely breathing. I called 911 and rode with them to the hospital.There, I learned he had no insurance. The cost of treatment? Almost exactly what I’d saved. I hesitated—but then I looked at her, trusting me with everything. I gave the doctor my card.
