When Bai Fang Li was about to retire from his occupation as a rickshaw driver at the age of seventy-four, he saw a group of children working in the fields because they were too poor to afford schooling. He immediately returned to the city where he worked and continued his labor. Besides what little was necessary to sustain his spartan lifestyle, all of the money that he earned went to support the schooling of the children in his hometown. He did this for almost twenty years, working until his body couldn't keep up with the strain, and in so doing supported more than three hundred students.
Despite the poverty of his own situation, Bai Fang Li was able to see how much he was still able to offer others, and by so doing directly blessed the lives of hundreds. How much more can we, whose opportunities are not so limited as Bai Fang Li's, offer to those around us?
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