What Kindness Is All About
19 June 2006
Sierra Tinglin

     There is a woman who dedicated much of her life to helping others and making sure she lived her life to the very fullest. Jane Smith had always had trouble staying in one city or state for a long period of time - she wanted to travel and see the world.
      When her husband was diagnosed with two different kinds of terminal cancer, Jane decided to take her husband to Alaska. “I wanted my husband to see all of the beautiful things God made for the last time.” She says. The doctors told her that her husband only had two or three months left to live, but to everyone’s surprise he lived six and a half years instead of those few months. Jane said it was the people that helped her husband have a little extra time. “The people up here are different, in big busy cities no has time for one and other but here everybody cares for everybody,” she says smiling.
      Jane was devastated when her husband finally died, but at the same time she was knew he was in a better place. The pain of the cancer was incredibly horrible and now she knew he wasn’t in any more pain. “God was there for my husband and I. There are some things you can’t face by yourself, when you have cancer there are friends, family, and doctors but they are there for moral support sometimes you need a thing called Hope,” Jane said, with so much confidence radiating from her. “I live my life by the quote ‘Kindness is something the blind can see and the deaf can hear.’ It makes me feel good knowing that I have worked with people in need. I feel like I’ve given a little something back to the world. I think the point of my life is to help others… I’m not just here for me.”

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