-11- Blog for Life and Freedom… blog of my Inspiration

“We will never tire of helping others if we do it voluntarily ”
--- Master Cheng Yen---

“We are dreamers. We dream of a day when people love each others, where the Earth is a clean and safe place, and when people start to believe in their futures again. And for that, we try to work hard, step by step, in hopes of achieving this ultimate dream.” My friend’s saying

As I mentioned above that most of Tzu Chi friends are my inspiration. I would like to exemplify one of my friend’s story as a representative of them. Hopefully, his good deeds and marvelous dream will inspire u, the readers, to spread your love to others as well.

The story started when I read his wonderful blog; Frankie’s Blog for Life and Freedom. It consists of his lifestyle, interesting, medical life, activities, traveling and inspiration. Absolutely, along his journey, he has a bunch of good companions; Connie (his sister), Kaijing, Shinyee, Yingen, Wenting, ect. Reading his blog can make me learn more, I ask him to clarify his activities and volunteering works for me. And these following passages are his tale.

Frankie, the Malaysian guy who is the fifth year in the Faculty of Medicine of Tzu Chi University. He became to be Tzu Chi member since he was 14 years old, high school level, by his mother leading and Connie, she became as well. As Tzu Chi members, Frankie and Connie, they love being volunteers to help the needy people such as entertaining the chronic renal disease patients that must do dialysis. As you know Chronic renal failure is such a suffering disease, the patients can alive longer by only dialysis treatment that is very expensive and agonize them. Most of them are distressed and loss of hope thoroughly. Just singing and supporting them can give them some of spirit and go on their fighting.

Moreover they volunteer to take care of the children in orphan home that are too many children for only 2 nurses, Frankie and Connie usually went there to feed, bath and play with them.

There are many other Volunteering works such as teaching the poor students in primary school, visiting and giving activities for the old people in old folk home, etc.

When he finished High school level, the university course came. He got a scholarship to study in his favorite field in UK. But because Master’s teaching had deeply influencing his life, because of his lovely mind and immersed dream to help the poor and needy people, he decided to give up his right in his UK scholarship and headed on being Tzu Chi students in Faculty of Medicine. He is such a praiseworthy guy, isn’t he. Two years later, Connie came to be Tzu Chi students in Public Health Faculty as well.

After being Tzu Chi students, absolutely, he still went on his volunteering works and beneficial activities to society when the chance coming. I cannot mention all of their activities along his five years in Tzu Chi, Hualien, however I will try my best to pass on his tale.

Every vacation he would participate in camp volunteering. One of them from his blog was China camp; the camp for the poor students in China countryside.

As you know there are a numerous people in China, Most of them are poor and have no education. The adult deserted their home to be in the city and left their children with their old parents in rural area. Tzu Chi foundation constructed the school for them, the poor and pity children. Every year Tzu Chi members will go there and seek for some students that be worthy of getting scholarships. And Tzu Chi University students would arrange the camp for teaching, entertaining and supporting them. The camp couldn’t accept all of many students, only the best ones of each class could participate.

After finishing about 10days camp, they visited the poor students’ home, which are extremely long distance and difficult passages, the poor children must walk about 2 hours to go to school every day. From the photos in Frankie’s blog I can realize that it was very hard for volunteers to stay in very rural area there, Absolutely, such a hardship for those pity children. The last photo of this story is the crying children that was delighted in their coming and kindness and depressed of their departure…

This story touched me ultimately. I can remember one of photos at the airport, Tzu Chi students (staff) stood in row along the passage tidy and doing body language, Frankie explained that all of them were practicing one of their performance in camping, they wouldn’t like to waste even a moment because they wish to give the best things for the children… it is such an impressive story, isn’t it?

Other than volunteering works, there are many activities that give benefits to society such as Neo Cutlery that I mentioned above, promoting Tzu Chi foundation, asking donation from the people, etc.

Frankie, Connie, Kaijing, Wenting, ShinYee,.., everybody, they all are my excellent inspiration. By their young age, they can have such great dreams and valuable deeds. Certainly, in the future they must spread their love extensively more and create many great things for the world. I am the one that always support them and will use their deeds motivate myself to go through my own dream..