Mr. Wright

May 14, 2011 at 5:05 pm | Posted in 05/2011 | Leave a comment

Dear Leukemia, you may think you’ve won, but you have not. Yes, you have ended the life of a great man too soon. Yes, you have hurt countless people today. Yes, you have turned happy lives into living nightmares. I’ll give you that, all that. But, NO, you have not won.

What you don’t understand, Leukemia, is that in the wake of your destruction you leave more than just heartbreak. You also leave inspiration of the strongest kind. In this case, you leave hundreds of students who are better people having been in Mr. Wright’s classroom. You leave future leaders, doctors, and scientists… and pretty damn smart ones, too. Because of what you’ve done today, maybe you’ve inspired one of those students in a way that will make you regret what you’ve done. Maybe one of them will take what he or she learned from Mr. Wright about science and about character and about being truly relentless and apply it to finding the cure to you once and for all. Maybe it’s one of them who will become your nightmare someday.

So, to Leukemia… you’ve broken many hearts into irreparable pieces today, but you have not broken our minds or our spirits.

To Mr. Wright… thank you for giving of yourself so boldly, so selflessly, and so generously. Thank you for always praying and cheering for all of us.

To Stacy, the kids, and all the Wrights… thank you for sharing John with us. He changed many lives in so many powerful ways. We will never stop praying. We will never stop cheering. Not ever.

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