There was a teacher who tried very hard to make a good class in this Primary School.

When she was teaching Grade 5, he found one boy who was not wearing clean clothes, being late to school, sleeping in class and never raise his hand in the class where everyone else is.
The teacher couldn’t like the boy, she started to hate him.
Then the teacher was starting to write bad things about the boy in the mid-term report.

One day, she found the boy’s report from Grade 1.
There, it was written
“He is cheerful, likes his friends and kind to people.  He can orifice well and very looking forward to his future.”
This must be a mistake. This is a different child, the teacher thought.

On his Grade 2 report it was written,
“He has to take care of his sick mother and sometimes be late to school.”

In Grade 3,
“He’s mother got worse, he is exhausted and sleeps in the class.”

In the end of Grade 3 report said,
“His mother died. He has lost hope and depressed.”

In Grade 4,
“His father lost meaning of life and became alcoholic and became violent to his child.”

The teacher could feel his heart was beating fast.
The child he believed was useless was actually trying his best to live in deep sorrow life.

He had appeared before her as a boy. This was a striking moment to the teacher.

After school, she said to the boy
“I will be in the classroom working till noon. Would you like to stay and study? I will teach where you don’t understand.”
The boy smiled the first time.
From that day, the boy started to study very hard in the classroom on his desk.
When he first raised his hand, the teacher was happy from the bottom of her heart.
The boy was starting to be more confident.

In Grade 6, the teacher was no longer his class teacher.
When the boy was graduation, the teacher received a card from the boy.

“You are like my mother. And the best teacher I’ve ever met.”

Six years later, he sent another card.

“Tomorrow is my High School graduation. I was very happy that you were my teacher in grade 5. I now have a scholarship to go to university and study Medicine.”

Ten years later, another card was sent.
In the card, the boy written he knows how to appreciate that he met the teacher, and his experience of being beaten from his father, he can become a doctor who can understand the pain and how to appreciate.

“I often remember you back in grade 5. You have saved me from becoming useless. I feel like you are a god. I have grown up and became a doctor. To me, the best teacher is you who taught me in grade 5.”

A year later,
a card the teacher received was an invitation to the wedding.

It said, “Please sit in mother’s seat.”

The teacher could not stop crying.

This is a true story based on a book from Japan.

A chance with a teacher of only one year. Life is build up on many fate.
What’s important is how you take advantage of the given chance.

I especially want all the adults to read this story.

There is no one who is useless.

There is no one without hope.

It is our mind that creates such a thought.

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A true story from

“Five Little Stories that moves peoples Heart” / “Kokoro ni hibiku 5 no Monogatari” (Japanese title)

Hideko Suzuki

Chapter 5 ‘Connection of the Chance’ / ‘En wo Ikasu’ (Japanese title)