My Free Read

                                                 Listening Is an Act of Love  
My free choice book this year was Listening Is an Act of Love which was edited by Dave Isay. This book is a collecting of stories from all over the nation that are about things from families to struggles and incidents that happened. Most of these stories were things like highlights of peoples lives that might have happened when they were very little or recently in their present lives.

Some of the stories that I liked were from work and dedication. A bus driver named Ronald Ruiz was driving his public bus in the city of New York one day when an old woman came on and said that she needed to get to a restaurant to meet her friends but wasn't sure which one. He let the woman on the bus and told her that he would check the restaurants on the street for her. As he got to each restaurant he would get off the bus and go check in and see if it was the one she was needed at. At the very last restaurant he found the one she needed to be at. Instead of just letting her out to walk there, he took the bus around and kneeled it so that it would be easier for her to get off. Once he helped her off, she told him, "Today I was diagnosed with cancer, but you made me feel like a princess today."

It was a very emotional story for me personally because many people in my family have had/died of cancer. And even though this bus driver had never met this woman before in his life, he treated her like he had known her his whole life. He stopped the bus at every restaurant just so that this old woman wouldn't get lost. This is kind of like an inspiration to me to always be nice to people because you never know what could be going on in their lives in that time.