Two

Me and my friends were walking home from the bar two weeks ago when we saw two girls dive in head first off of a bridge that spans the channel. One girl popped up immediately, the other one didn't come up at all. Hearing the death screams of the first girl me and my friend immediately hopped into action. We stripped of our clothes and jumped in after the girl. After fishing around the bottom searching for her presumably lifeless body, I began to follow the current downstream. After I swept down stream, I pulled myself onto a dock to look for the missing girl. Luckily, the girl must have heard my calls as I noticed some splashing 30 yards away from me. I was able to talk her into shore and pulled her up onto the dock. Of course, a fistful of cop cars, ambulances, and fire trucks showed up at that point and took her to the hospital. To this day she doesn't remember any of it. Would she have survived if I wasn't there? Most likely, but I'm glad I was there to help her anyway. 

One

The first way I figured I could help make a difference was to call that number on tv. A commercial came on for ChildFund and the pictures of the kids just melted my heart so I did "pick up the phone and call now". I have been sponsoring Anthony for almost a year now. He is a 5 year old Guatemalan boy growing up in poverty but my monthly donation will hopefully buy him at least one smile a month. It may not be much, but it was somewhere to start. 

One Million People

This is my blog. I started this blog to outline my life's journey, which is to help out one million people before I die. To some this goal may seem far fetched, to others it may seem like a short coming but to me its my life work. 

I came up with the goal to help one million people when I was 22 years old. A recent graduate of college, I was looking for meaning and a purpose to life. After a summer spent secluded with not much more than words of wisdom from the Dahlia Lama, I knew that my purpose was to use my abilities to help others. 

I am no one special. I came from an upper-middle class background. I was afforded all the luxuries a kid could ask for growing up and now I feel that I must pay that forward and bless other people with the opportunities that I was given. 

My long term goal is to help as many people as possible through education. I believe that through a proper education, all of the worlds problems can be solved. Eventually I hope to open my own boarding school that will offer free tuition and board to students from impoverished countries that have the desire to learn and make a difference in their home communities. Hopefully though this program, my graduates will be able to pass it forward and educate millions of their own people. 

So the purpose of this blog is a journal to document the people who's lives I feel I may have made a major difference in. I'm sure some stories will be much more motivating than others and some simple acts of kindness will outweigh large efforts but when all is said and done, this will be my life story to help one million people.