Kindness Wins|人间处处有温情

Kindness Wins

by Olivia Wycech

How bullying changed one gay student's life for the better.

　　For some, college years are the best times of their lives, but many others have not been so fortunate. For a multitude of reasons, college students all over the world are forced to endure teasing and bullying to varying degrees, making those years less than pleasurable. Fortunately, there are kind-hearted people in this world looking out for one another. When a student in Radford, Virginia, became a victim of bullying and his car was repeatedly vandalized, a group of local business owners heard his story and set out to change the young student's life.

　　Jordan Addison is an openly gay student at Radford University. His car had been vandalized a total of four times, with things like hateful slurs keyed into it. The damage totaled US$2,500, an amount that exceeds most students' budgets. When the manager of Quality Auto Paint and Body, Richard Henegar, Jr., heard his story, he felt compelled to help. He and several other businesses pooled together and donated more than ten thousand dollars' worth of work and over 100 hours of their time not only repairing Addison's car, but pimping it out, too. Addison's car got a new paint job, tinted windows, an alarm system, and even a new stereo. Henegar explained that it was the least they could do, and Addison was overjoyed, saying that the car had never looked that good the entire time he owned it. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres noted this on her daytime talk show when she awarded Henegar and Addison each US$25,000. You never know how much even the smallest random act of kindness can change someone's life.

 

人间处处有温情

霸凌竟改善了一位同性恋学生的生活。

　　对某些人而言，大学生活是一生当中最美好的时光，但也有很多人并没有这么幸运。基于许多理由，世界各地的大学生被迫要忍受不同程度的嘲弄及霸凌，使得他们的大学生涯很不快乐。还好，这个世界上还是有很多好心的人会互相照顾。当一位维吉尼亚州拉德福大学的学生成了霸凌的受害者，而且他的车子一再被破坏，有一群当地企业的老板听说了他的故事，便打算改变这名年轻学生的生活。

　　乔丹．爱迪生是拉德福大学中一位已公开自己性向的同性恋学生。他的车子总共遭到了四次的蓄意破坏，上面刻满了充满憎恨的诋毁文字。车子的损坏总共要花两千五百美元，这是一笔超过大部份学生所能负担的预算。当高质量汽车烤漆暨车体钣金修理厂的经理小理查．汉纳格听说了爱迪生的故事，便觉得一定要伸出援手。他和其他几家企业合资捐款帮爱迪生修车，修车的费用市价超过一万美元，此外他们花了一百多个小时不仅帮他把车修理好，还做了一番升级改造。他们将爱迪生的车子重新烤漆，车窗也重新上色，还装了新的警报系统，甚至音响也是新的。汉纳格解释，这对他们而言只是区区小事一桩，而爱迪生却非常高兴，他说从他拥有这部车子以来，它从来没有看起来这么棒过。脱口秀主持人艾伦．狄珍妮丝在她白天时段的脱口秀节目中提及此事，并颁给汉纳格及爱迪生两人各两万五千美元的奖金。你永远不知道，即使是一项最小而无心的善行也可能会改变某个人的一生。