At thirteen, I was diagnosed (诊断) with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.

In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”

She glanced down at me through her glasses, “You are not different from your classmates, young man.” I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.

In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braile. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was not different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problem, why should I ever give up?

I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day—with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words, “See what you can do when you keep trying?”

An 18-year-old US girl gained unexpected appreciation and a surprise after she gave “extra help” to an elderly man in the restaurant she was working.

It's social media that made her seemingly small action go viral and brought her appreciation from hundreds of thousands of strangers and a scholarship to Texas Southern University.

The heroine Evoni Williams has reportedly been working full-time to earn money for further study in a restaurant in La Marque, Texas, the United States. It was last week when an old man named Adrian Charpentier asked for help to chop his ham for his hands were weak because of illness. On that busy morning when she had loads of work on shoulder, Williams helped the man without hesitation. The moment she was leaning over the counter and cutting the ham was shot by a customer known as Laura Wolf.

Wolf posted the picture on the Internet and wrote, “I'm thankful to have seen this act of kindness and caring at the start of my day while everything in this world seems so negative. If we could all be like this waitress and take time to offer a helping hand. . . ” According to local reports, Wolf didn't know Williams, neither did Williams know her act was shot and shared on the web. However, the small act of kindness soon accumulated its own power on and outside the Internet.

Besides praise from netizens and media reports across the United States, a 16000-dollar scholarship to Texas Southern University was recently granted to Williams to support her study plan on business management.

“We wanted to reward Evoni's act of kindness and let her know that good deeds do not go unnoticed,” said Melinda Spaulding, an administrator at Texas Southern University.

One day Howard had to go to New York for a meeting. He flew to New York and called a taxi. He told the driver the address of the hotel and sat in the back seat. Then the driver turned around to speak to him.

“Congratulations!” he said. “You’re my first passenger and this is my first day as a taxi driver, but you don’t have to worry. In my job I had lots of driving experience and I know the city very well. “That’s good,” said Howard, “I’m sure you’ll be a good driver.”

“Thank you,” said the driver. He started driving towards the hotel.

Howard looked at his watch and noticed that he was early for his meeting. He decided to ask the driver to take him to a bookstore. He leaned（靠）forward and tapped him on the shoulder.

The driver screamed and made the taxi go suddenly across the road. It almost hit a bus and another car. Then it almost hit a pedestrian（行人）crossing the street, who screamed and jumped out of the way.

Howard was afraid. He shouted at the taxi driver. “Be careful!”

The driver screamed again, and the taxi went suddenly to the other side of the road and almost hit a truck. The truck driver shook his fist angrily. Then the taxi went into the sidewalk, just missing two more pedestrians. Then it crashed into a store window with glass falling over it.

The driver looked at Howard. Then slowly he began to laugh, He laughed and laughed.

“It’s not funny,” said Howard. “You could have killed somebody!”

“I’m sorry”, said the driver when he stopped laughing. “I thought I was still in my old job. When you tap me on the shoulder and talked to me, I got really scared.”

“What was your old job” asked Howard. “Didn’t I tell you?” said the driver. “I used to drive a car that carried dead bodies to funerals（葬礼）.”