This Will Break Your Heart

So we have these staff meetings every other week and for the first 15-20 minutes we share inspiring stories that have happened recently. It's just a great reminder of why we do what we do. Lacey(our tour logistics coordinator) shared a story of a boy who found out about the movie earlier this year and starting hosting screenings. This is all from memory so I'm sure some of it is inaccurate but you get the point. The empowerment aspect to IC is essential to who we are as a company so it was expected. What wasn't so expected was that this guy would call everyday checking in with the office. Everyone is really busy at the office so it becomes a nuisance if someone is calling constantly. Anyway it became this ongoing joke about this guy in the office where people would guess when he would call. This past summer he had a screening and the sent the donations and merch money in as usual. But for some reason he was calling more than usual to check and see if we had posted the money. The office at the time was backed up and busy so the there was a delay. A few days later the boy's mother called Lacey's cell phone. Lacey expected the mom to be really angry with her and was nervous about answering the phone. She picked up and immediately the mom said she wasn't angry just that she needed to tell her the backstory as to why her son had been calling so much. A year ago this boy killed a father and his two daughters in a fluke car accident. It was just a freak accident, there was no alcohol or anything involved. The family had heard about this boy was doing for IC and this last screening was first time they met him. The boy said it was the first time since the accident where he felt like he could give something back. Where he had something to live for. Then Lacey said if this was the only thing that happened in the history of IC and all the work we had been doing from the start, that it would be worth it. It would be worth it because it changed this boy's life. For good.