A Deadly Frozen Night (A True Story).. There was a Jewish man named Yankel, who had a bakery, in a town, Crown Heights, Germany.. He always said, "You know why I’m alive today?".. He said "I was a kid, just a teenager at the time in Germany when the Nazis were killing Jews with no mercy.. We were on the train being taken to Auschwitz by Nazis. Night came and it was deathly cold in that compartment.. The had Germans left us on the side of the tracks overnight, sometimes for days, without any food.. There were no blankets to keep us warm.. Snow was falling everywhere.. Cold winds were hitting our cheeks, every second.. We were hundreds of people in that terribly cold night. No food.. No water.. No shelter. No blankets.. The blood in our bodies started freezing.. It was becoming ice.. Beside me, there was a beloved elderly Jewish man from my hometown.. He was shivering from head to toe, and looked terrible.. So I wrapped my arms around him to warm him up.. I hugged him tightly to give him some heat.. I rubbed his arms, his legs, his face, his neck.. I begged him to try to be alive..I encouraged him.. All night long, I kept this man warm this way... I was tired, and freezing cold myself.. My fingers were numb, but I didn’t stop rubbing heat into that old man’s body.. Hours and hours went by.. Finally, morning came and the sun began to shine.. I looked around to see the other people.. To my horror, all I could see were frozen bodies.. All I could hear was deathly silence.. Nobody else in that cabin were alive.. That freezing night killed them all.. They died from the cold.. Only two people survived: the old man and me.. The old man survived because I had kept him warm..and I survived because I was warming him.. May I tell you the secret to survival in this world?.. When you warm other people’s hearts, you will remain warm yourself.. When you support, encourage and inspire others, then you will discover support, encouragement and inspiration in your own life as well... My friends, That is the secret to a happy life..". "When you are good to others you are good to yourself.. When you make people happy, people will make you happy".. The happiest people in life are the givers and not the getters.. There are a rare breed of people who are always intense, who believe in the beauty of life and the power of unconditional love.. People like YOU, who will always keep their word, they give their everything when they are required to do anything for others, they will go the extra mile for almost everyone and certainly without a doubt for those they care about.. These people hardly ever receive the same passion, love or response in return, even from the very people who have been beneficiaries of their graciousness and love.. Yet these givers never change and always will give it their everything, hoping that one day, maybe, that they will find more people who are as rare as them, who will be unconditional givers, as fiercely and with as much devotion and intensity as them.. To all the unconditional givers, forgivers and selfless people out there in this world, keep being beautiful and don't let the coldness of some in the world change you.. The goodness you radiate is akin to drops of Amrit into the sea of humanity.. So please take advantage of every little moment that you are given, as a blessing and make the world as beautiful as you are
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