Fifteen years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One day I went to pick up a passenger (乘客) at 2:40 am. When I arrived there, I walked to the door and knocked.

After a while, the door opened. A small woman stood before me. She was more than eighty years old. By her side was a big bag.

When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address (地址), and then asked, “Could you drive through the city?”

“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.

“Oh, I know,” she said, “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终关怀医院). I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”

I quietly turned off the meter(计程表). For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived.

We drove to the address she had given me.

“How much do I pay you?” she asked.

“None,” I said.

“You have to make a living,” she answered.

“Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered.

Almost without thinking, I gave her a hug. She said,“ You gave an old woman a moment of happiness.”

Campbell Remess is a teenager from Australia. He is sewing (缝制) teddy bears for sick children and he has done it for several years.

The story began in 2013 when Campbell was nine years old. He told his parents that he wanted to give Christmas gifts to children in hospitals. But his parents said no, because with nine children of their own, buying gifts for sick children would just cost too much. The little boy didn’t give up, however. He decided to make their gifts by himself.

Campbell made his first teddy bear with a sewing machine in his bedroom. It was hard for him as he didn’t do this before. He downloaded ( 下 载 ) patterns from the Internet and learned how to make a teddy bear by watching videos online. It took him five hours to finish his first teddy bear. He can now make a teddy bear in an hour. He also started a program called “Program 365 by Campbell”, meaning “he tries to make a teddy bear every day”.

In his free time, young Campbell uses his pocket money to buy materials for making teddy bears. Many people know Campbell’s story and they give away free materials to him.

Campbell has given away about 1,300 teddy bears so far. He is now busy making this year’s teddy bears. He said that he never thought of stopping and he would keep putting smiles on people’s faces.