We know by now that it is good to be kind and do an act of kindness! But it's heroic when this act of kindness is giving your life to save someone else's life. That's what happened on Saturday.
A young man died while trying to save his first love's life as a train came barreling down on them while they were on their way to a school dance.
The girl is now in a hospital fighting to hold onto the life her boyfriend gave everything to save.
The family of 16-year-old Mickayla Friend said she and her boyfriend were planning to attend a Sadie Hawkins Day dance at their high school in Marysville, Calif., when they walked towards a store on the train tracks.
A train approached traveling in the same direction as the two teenagers and they were unable to move out of the way in time, TV station KCRA reports.
"It's her first boyfriend and her first love....And she just got it taken away from her in an instant."
At the last moment Mickayla's boyfriend — whose name has not been released by authorities but has been identified on Facebook as Mateus Moore — pushed her out of the way. He was killed at the scene. His girlfriend is in critical condition at a local hospital.
"It's her first boyfriend and her first love," Alithya Friend, Mickayla's sister, said. "And she just got it taken away from her in an instant."
Authorities told the station the conductor blew the horn and activated the emergency brakes, but the train did not stop in time.
"You can't imagine getting the worst call in your life, knowing that you just dropped your sister off to go to a dance that was supposed to be a special, amazing night for her and her boyfriend of a year," Alithya Friend said. "And then you get a call that says he's deceased and she's in critical condition."
The accident occurred near a crowded park and many onlookers rushed over to try and save the two teenagers.
"The engineer was on the horn… Then finally, they both looked back at the same time," witness Sean Stark said. "They would have both been underneath that train if he didn't push her out of the way at the last second."
"Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand." - James L. Gordon
By Heidi Shebaro
Founder of "The Kindness Project in the Middle East", a teacher and a blogger
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