Story of an ex-homeless youth, who passed through hardships
and poverty and managed to enroll in university with will power, inspires a lot of people!
and poverty and managed to enroll in university with will power, inspires a lot of people!
This is a good-natured young man
with stormy good looks. Deities
pay special attention to such children. For unscrupulous people who think that God
never provides financial help, I’d like to provide one example.
There is a sushi restaurant our
family used to patronize. On a
Wednesday night, we visited the restaurant where we had made a table
reservation. Surprisingly, we
were the only customers there.
Since it was a nice restaurant, I didn’t want it to wind up its business and
then wondered if there was something I could do. Strange enough, there was a telephone call
for reservation in no time and a couple with a little girl came
there. Hearing the family and
the restaurant owner having a conversation, I found that the family seemed to
visit the restaurant for the first time in a long while. It was probably because an angel who read
my mind sent to the family her vibrational energy which induced them to go to
the restaurant. Apparently,
deities secretly paid attention to my feelings. I did appreciated their
thoughtfulness
I hear that subsequently, the
restaurant was awarded as one-star restaurant to by the Michelin Guide and
has had a thriving business. We
feel relieved to hear about it.
This is because our family have not been able to eat sushi because of
cesium.
Oh, my wife has remembers that the
name of the little girl was Serana.
Masatoshi Takeshita
June 6, 2014
English translation from the excerpt from a Japanese
article: Rocket News 24 –
June 6, 2014 –
Story of an ex-homeless youth, who passed through
hardships and poverty and managed to enroll in university with will power,
inspires a lot of people!
*High school student who stands hardships others hardly
experience
It is Griffin Furlong living in Jacksonville, Florida who
has graduated from a high school with a top GPA and will attend a university
with his guts.
*He suffers from poverty in childhood
He lost his mother to leukemia when he
was a child, leaving him with his father and elder brother. They were forced to live in a homeless
shelter for two years after his mother passed away. When he was in sixth grade, his family finally moved into a
home but money was scare and they often hungry.
*Before graduation from high school, he becomes homeless
again.
Then, just a few weeks before
graduation, he found himself homeless again. He temporarily thought
about dropping out of school, but he asked his girlfriend to stay at her
house to secure an accommodation before moving in with an aunt and
uncle.
*Top-class achiever in the face of adversity
Such situation like his easily makes ordinary students
become delinquents.
Griffin maintained getting good academic
achievements of all A’s and graduated with top-class
achievements. He graduated as
valedictorian.
Although he was qualified to enroll in university with
high level of academic achievement, has had to face hardship
again. University tuition was too expensive for him to afford it
because he was raised in poverty.
*Donation enables him to attend university
Then, Griffin raised fund for
his enrollment in college at a fund-raising site “GoFundMe” and
succeeded to raise a goal donation of 20,000
dollars (approximately 2.04 million yen) within only a
week. He will go to University of Florida this fall.
*Strong will power makes everything possible
In an interview with TV, he says: “I try to accomplish
everything I need to do. All I
have is school and family. I made up my mind to do my best because I didn’t
want to lose either.
I did it for me and my mom all the more because I
was through hardship.”
He shows strength of character, unimaginable for high school
student. Needless to say,
his guts touched many people and donation was
raised in a moment.
It is easy to show the white feather and drop by the
wayside because of hardship.
Therefore, I can help feeling that the younger generation should have such
will power as he does.
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