Everyone Needs 'Someone to Lean On'
From the article, 'Someone to Lean On,' values where shared from the examples of a troubled Junior High student who struggled with grades, friends and his family and carried around his favorite radio. But through out the article, it showed how much people loved and cared for Radio at an older age. A coach said that when he dies, it will be the biggest funeral in Anderson. This is because he was loved so much by many, though he still had the disorders and issues that he had at a young age. He was said to be the most-known person in high school football. So, though he started off rough and noticed in all of the wrong ways, it ended in fame and friends and a new family in the high school football world. How did he make that happen?
He held more varsity letters than any other student athlete through-out the last three decades, from football, basketball and track and field. When he was told he was in the 12th grade, he did not know that meant he would be graduating soon and that made him terribly sad because he always wanted to be apart of his high school sports. Though Radio could not tell time, he woke up at 6 am everyday to help the football guys at practice and try his best to motivate guys to do what he is physically unable to do.
No one could give a name to Radio's disability though he got it genetically from his father, who he never sees, no one really asked or cared. All people knew was that he had a love for pushing his team mates to be their best every single day and to succeed on the football field, the basketball court and on the track. Though Radio could get on some nerves with his constant positivity and chants, the players do not know what they would have done with the best equipment manager they have ever had.
Coach Jones gave Radio the chance to be apart of something big. No one knew why, because they knew their coach was emotionless, like all coaches are. But Coach invited Radio to school to be involved with his classes and soon he was apart of the health and PE classes with all of the other students.
If it weren't for the caring of Coach Jones, who gave Radio a chance to truly be something and make an impact on others, then Radio would not have been much to anyone in that town. He wouldn't be given gifts on his birthday by the townspeople and he wouldn't be talked about everyday about what he did for high school sports. Radio changed Coach Jones's life and Jones changed Radios both for the better.