These Special Kids Will Show Us We've Got Life All Wrong - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

we all heard about the special olympics where you know handicapped children have an opportunity to get together and compete and in sports and race and all that is it's a beautiful thing in 1976 during a marathon race 100 yard dash bunch of runners lined up nine runners and they began for their march they're they're a chance for greatness you know it's not easy to win a gold medal boom the gun fires and one of them is out in front and he hears a cry he turns back to look and sees that one of his friends fell and is hurt on the ground so without hesitating he turns around to go help his friends and another one sees him turning around he notices one he also turns around and so they all one by one all these racers turn around to help their friend that fell and they was in pain they helped him up and together in arms they cross the finish line as one together as a group and that's how that race ended and it's an amazing race because you had nine winners you really had nine winners because for one guy to win a race that's what we're used to you know the race of life we're running running and we don't help the one behind us so that he should also succeed we actually step on him because that's how we got in front of him if we step on him to get where we are we don't think about oh let me help the one that needs a bit more help you know we're so selfish minded that it's about me me me and you know i don't have a moment to spare and i don't have one ounce of energy to help him because it's all got to be for me because i got to win got to be on top the funny thing is that if you know if i can help him and we both get ahead then we're both winners that's what people just are too you know too distracted to notice to realize so it's these special kids who are truly special that have a perspective on life that's different because of their challenges and and they're able to see what really [Music] matters you