Amazed

I recently came across this story online, and was amazed at it. The story is sad, and the fact that this individual is a victim for so long after he recovered from his attack is sad. His attitude is what inspires me.

I was talking to a friend about how people get stuck focusing on their own lives, and not realizing that so many people are worse off.  This individual probably has the most valid reason to be down in the dumps about his life. No identity. No friends. No family. No job. Nothing.  Yet he keeps going, hoping things will change.

I don't want to use his name, because it is not his real name. Rather it is the name given by a hospital after he was found behind a dumpster near a Burger King. The hospital already had a John Doe, so they made up a name with the initials BK.

Six years after the brutal attack that almost left him dead, he still has little to hope for.  He was victimized again after his attack by the media, who only helped because they wanted the big story, but gave up after nobody came forward saying they knew the man. He could not get a job, check out books from the library, or even stay in a homeless shelter because he had no identification.  Yet he did not give up.  In the video he admits that he sometimes wishes he had died, but he still goes on living, and truly struggling. 

There are a few things that inspire me about this video.  I hope you will find something inspiring about it as well.

Life has a purpose