A "strange" story in the Department of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language

Le Dai Thang - a classmate of mine from university, working at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Center, after many years of struggling with kidney failure, is in dire straits. According to the doctor's conclusion, Thang's kidneys have completely failed and if he does not have a kidney transplant urgently, Thang is at risk of permanent blindness, cerebral palsy and heart failure. In fact, Thang's health is getting worse, his eyesight is getting weaker and his mobility is becoming more and more difficult. Unfortunately, to have a kidney transplant, the patient needs up to 700 million VND. In Thang's current situation, that is an unimaginable number. As the son of a concubine, his family is poor, since getting married and getting sick, the entire dowry and income of the couple is only enough to help Thang with dialysis. In the dire straits, Thang and his wife have tried every way to make ends meet, including tearfully selling the precious books they have painstakingly saved for many years, but the results are just a drop in the ocean. Desperate, Thang asked his friends for help. Feeling sorry for his situation, my class pooled money and set up a fanpage to call on everyone to help Thang.

Student Le Thi Thuy (white shirt) - a student who makes many people admire her decision

Thanks to Facebook, Le Thi Thuy - a final year student of the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language - learned about Thang's situation and proactively contacted Pham Xuan Thinh - a fanpage administrator, who is also very active in connecting Thang with everyone. After a few greetings, Thuy immediately presented her intention:

– I read your post and learned that you are raising money for your friend. I found out that if you have kidney failure, you need a kidney transplant. Has your friend found an organ source? I can donate to him, and if he needs blood, I can donate blood to help him.

Thuy's unexpected offer completely stunned Thinh:

– Who are you? Why are you so nice?

– I am a student of the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies. I want to do that because I know your friend is a book lover, and I am also a book lover. I have no ulterior motive. I know that if the donor is not related by blood, the recipient has a higher chance of survival.

– You are so kind. On behalf of my friend, I thank you very much. This is a big deal and we will think about it and discuss it further. But right now I see that you are truly a product of the University of Humanities and I am proud to have studied there.

- If I haven't done anything, don't thank me.

– … I'm actually a bit confused in front of you because I'm not mentally prepared for this situation.

Strangely enough, such an important decision was made by Thuy without any hesitation and explained with an extremely simple reason: she wanted to donate a kidney just because she sympathized with the patient's love of books, wanted to help the patient overcome the pain of illness to pursue that love. However, hidden behind Thuy's light-hearted decision was a very profound concept of human responsibility. As a Buddhist, to Thuy, helping people or bringing happiness to others is a matter of course, a natural thing that does not need to be discussed.

But Thuy did not imagine that her simple and natural words had shaken Thinh's mind. Unable to sleep, Thinh shared the short conversation between him and Thuy on his fanpage and immediately created a positive effect in the online community. From Thanh Hoa, a painter could not hide his emotion: "The heart of a Bodhisattva. It can only be understood in the Buddhist way that this female donor came to repay the favor from a previous life". From Saigon, a businesswoman excitedly said: "Who said life has no miracles? Thank you Thuy, the compassionate student whom I have never met. The girl asked to donate a kidney to Thang. Thank you very much". In Hanoi, a former student sadly confided: "After leaving school, knowledge may gradually fade away, the lectures on the major of the teachers may not be applicable in life, but the human heart is always full, complete and eternal". There is an interesting coincidence that since the story of the little female student's voluntary organ donation was spread, the activities to support Thang have progressed day by day with many cute and creative forms. Last night, Thang's wife shared with the fanpage management group: "It's a miracle, everyone. Everything happened beyond our expectations. Thang will definitely be saved. My husband and I will try our best to not let down everyone's kindness."

Surely you and I both believe that Thuy's story has played a certain role in awakening kindness in each person and in Thang's inevitable journey of resurrection. For a simple reason, true love - which often exists in the most ordinary forms - always has the power to transform, support, connect people, bring people to reach possibilities that they never thought of before and constantly make our lives more mysterious and more lovable.