More than anything else she wanted to save people.
Everywhere she looked people were starving when others had food. They were cold when others were comfortable. They were hurting when others were happy. The girl looked around and could not understand this. Why isn't someone doing something? she asked herself.
As she grew older, the girl continued to ask this. She hoped and wished that someone would step up and make a difference. Then she realized that she herself could. So, when she passed a beggar on the street in her city, she talked to him. She took time to learn his name, providing him with a blanket in the winter and handing him sandwiches when she knew he was hungry.
But the girl felt bad because she couldn't feed every starving person. She cried herself to sleep at night because she was comfortable when others were cold. All she wanted was for people to be genuinely happy! But all she could do was help this one man.
She doubted it would make a real difference. Yet, throughout the years she continued to serve him.
And one day, he began to ask a similar question to the girl's. The beggar wondered why if one little girl could change his life forever, others were not doing the same. Why am I not doing the same? he thought. Soon he knew what he had to do. He could help one other person and, in turn, they could help one more. The girl had taught him that.
Before the girl knew it, she had become a hero.
