Neil | Manurewa
“If I can help and encourage other people, and give a helping hand, I will do so, despite what happens. Just give a helping hand, put away differences that people have, whether they’ve got disabilities, just embrace each and everyone one of us because we just never know when we could end up not surviving.
That’s what really inspires me with other people in the community. I stop, people look at me, and call at me, do you want a helping hand? And I want to do that back to help them, if I can, that’s what inspired me a lot.
It’s such a beautiful place, got trees around it, just love it hearing the tuis, and it’s so peaceful how lucky we all are on this and in this wonderful country of ours, just love it. We take it for granted. Example; the other day I had a heartbeat of 199, survived that, but for me never quit or give up. That’s how I go about.
Yesterday morning I felt really grateful because I’m still on this wonderful planet of ours. As I’ve said, I’ve had a quite nasty heartbeat, and any of them could have been a major heart attack or stroke, and I have been diagnosed with those, although as I say, never quit or give up. I’m here.
Zoe; I rescued her when she was six years of age, at the SPCA, and she is now 15, but even with her, she’s escaped a whole lot of injuries. For example; I was with her on a leash, and she was attacked out of nowhere, this Rottweiler just came and took to her, and since then her and I have got a wonderful relationship. Without thinking, I was attacked too when I was trying to wrestle the Rottweiler on top of her. She’s been in to the hospital with me, she’s also a survivor. But she’s just a special girl for me, and she’s now 15 years of age.
Right now to be grateful and how wonderful it is, we take for granted that in this wonderful country of ours, at least we haven’t got a war that’s going on the other side of the world. We do embrace people who are poorer than us, the refugees. They’re just so grateful of that, and knowing the fact that is happening I stay open with open arms. Be grateful for the wonderful lives we do have, knowing that there is a war, maybe we can talk peace with other people. That’s why my motivation is peace, instead of war, and as I say, namaste.”
