BEBEE HELP ME SAVE LIVES: PARAMEDIC LYON BRAVE

China is known for life shortening pollution and bureaucracy. 

Cambodia is known for corrupt police and Killing Fields. 

It's not always safe to travel alone. 

Traveling alone can be rather problematic, and I learned to deal with life AND death situations under pressure.

Being exposed to buddhist practices while in Thailand, especially equipped me to understand the nature of life, death and suffering, but in truth even in my childhood I was preparing to be a healer.

This understanding will give me great flexibility with dealing with the strenuous situations of being a paramedic, like sometimes being perceived as the angel of death. Sometimes medical professionals will save lives. Other times they will wittiness death and blame themselves.

Teaching abroad in second languages gave me the skills to communicate with people from a variety of backgrounds. It also helped me to be able to interpret body language and facial expressions accurately. I am a rather effective communicator no matter where I am in this world giving me the flexibility and adaptability I will need to enter a variety of situations from traffic accidents, to shootings, to suicides and people just dying from old age in random places.

“I didn’t become an EMT to get a front-row seat to other people’s tragedies. I did it because I knew the world was bleeding and so was I, and somewhere inside I knew the only way to stop my own bleeding was to learn how to stop someone else’s.”—Daniel José Older

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"When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t crawl, you find someone to carry you."

— Firefly, “The Message” (e12)

1. “Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” —Norman B. Rice

2. “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”—John Wayne

4. “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”—Albert Pike

5. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”—Thomas Edison

6. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”—Leo Buscaglia

7. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”—Christopher Reeve

8. “EMTs are privileged to play in life’s great game. Too many unlucky people watch the action thunder by, stuck at a desk, or watching it on television at home.”—Kelly Grayson

9. “There is no higher honor than to be given the responsibility to care for another human being.”—Richard K. Schachern

10. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For passion will lead you right into your purpose.”—T.D. Jakes

11. “Police officers, firefighters, EMTs—they are all out there every single day—literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.”—Doreen Cronin

12. “Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one.”—Abraham Lincoln

Death is nothing to fear, but a wasted life is.
Lyon Brave