Sparch sat on his wheelchair before a T.V. presenter introduces talents. The following conversation took place between them:
Presenter: How are you?
Sparch: Very well, thank you.
Presenter: Truly, I learn something from you. I feel happy because you’re doing well.
Sparch: Why not? You always have to feel well. I mean, why waste your time in feeling sad, while you can enjoy life?
Presenter: You have great principles and approaches. You sing and write your songs. When did you start doing this?
Sparch: When I became able to talk and utter words! Whenever my parents sang, I’d correct what they sing, then sing to them!
Presenter: What motivates and inspires you in life?
Sparch: Basically, those who surround me motivate me one way or another. Yet, first, I’d like to tell you that I use this wheelchair because of osteoporosis, apart from my exposure to one hundred and twenty-five tremors! I already with one!
Presenter: Are you really with a tremor now?
Sparch: Yes
Presenter: Why do want to participate in this program?
Sparch: I want to motivate the world. I can’t sit and weep for my disability or nag whenever I see others are fine and I am not. I will never give up to these negative feelings.
Presenter: No, you won’t.
Sparch: That is why I want to be an artist. My dream is to motivate everybody by presenting something before billions of people. Can I achieve this?
Presenter: Of course you can.
Then, Sparch presented a song entitled, “I am not afraid”.
I’d like to pause before Sparch, the boy who refuses to succumb to his illness. He cannot live as normally as his peers. Yet, he has what many healthy people don’t have, a life principle. He won’t waste his time in fruitless feelings. He lives happiness, while others heed nothing but pain and focus on what they lack, not on what they own. Nevertheless, some people think what they lack in are but luxuries which are not worthy to snatch their happiness.
To be continued…
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
