A winner all the way...

This is a true story.
This is not my story .

I was a witness to this...
let me call it ..

A shot of Courage...

let me call him Rob,this young boy..

bright,vivacious,ready to take on all challenges that life would throw his way.

He was a raw bundle of energy.He wanted excitement ...absolute total excitement in everything,in classroom,in relationships,and in life.

A moment of boredom was an eternity.
Rob was in grade 10,had managed to avoid parental checks on most occasions and spent his free time with his friends.He became the one who would challenge all his friends to try most new things...things that promised excitement.

Bike rides,wild dates,bunking school,smoking on the sly and finally alchohal!
It added a zing to an otherwise not so "happening"days.
Before he realized it he became hooked to this high.
Why i call him my hero is because of what happened later...one fine day he found himself at the doctors'
this is what he had to say..
ROB'S STORY
i had almost lost ma lyf..last nyt i was wid friends n we were drinking steadily..i dunno bout 'em but i was high..n i was on dis bike n speedin along da expressway..n it was fun.At least before i crashed it was.
it shouldn't have happened, but it had.i realized somethin there n then.da doc had no cure for me,the only person who had a cure was ME.i needed to change..ma lyf n maself,i thought just before i closed ma eyes .i decided to find a way out.some days were bad,nights worst..i had a pain dat refused to go away...but i would not give in.

Rob got back to school, picked up the pieces of his life .He became involved with community activities ,theatre and other action groups.He had demanded excitement from life but didn't know where to look for it.Now he looked in the right places.
He was was sometimes on the verge of breaking but he didn't break.
Courage,determination and a belief in his own self...he made it.

i call him my hero...