This boy — I just couldn’t let him go. So now, for however long he’s here, he’s in my life. I talk to him all the time. He wants to see how a movie’s made, so whatever movie I do next, I told him he could come and see what it’s like.
So many of the children I’ve spent time with through Make-A-Wish are struggling with being different in one way or another — because of their races, their socioeconomic situation, or just their illness. The mere fact that they have a potentially terminal illness sets them apart, and many of them suffer, at such a young age, the effects of being made to feel different because of that. I think back to when I was young, my mother was white, my father was black, and I’ve always felt different and sometimes out of place. I talk with these kids about my experiences and about how they can deal with being different.
I have such a deep compassion for children, and the joy that comes from helping them is immeasurable. I desperately want children of my own, and hope I haven’t missed the chance. But if I have, I’ve also learned through my own life experience that I have the capacity to love as my own a child who is not my own. And I know I will keep embracing children like the little boy I spent the day with — sort of my extended family of children.
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