When Eugene Yoon first heard the calling, he ignored it for two whole months. Was God really speaking to him? Was he crazy? Everything was going just fine in his life, yet this calling was telling him to drop everything and act.
"I remember kind of just like looking up at the sky and saying, 'God, are you sure about this? 'Cause I'm pretty happy right now.' It felt like a calling, but I tried to reject it for about 2 months 'cause it was just too outlandish," Eugene told CBS' Steve Hartman. Still, Eugene knew he had to do something big but he didn't know what. Then he saw a video on his Facebook feed of a complete and total stranger. The man was Arthur Renowitzky; he was in his wheelchair wearing a shirt that said, "I will walk again." Eight years earlier, Arthur had been mugged, shot, and left a paraplegic.
Eugene promised himself, promised God, that he would help Arthur walk again. With no medical background, he didn't really know how. Then he discovered an exoskeleton device that allows paraplegics to walk on their own two legs. The problem? It costs around $80,000. So Arthur quit his job to hike from the California-Mexico border all the way to Canada. He made videos and asked for donations. Somehow, miraculously, he reached his goal.
"To quit his job, to go into debt from doing this, to help me get back on my feet — you don't meet people like that every day," Arthur said.
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