"I don’t think I have any fear. When my younger brother was diagnosed with kidney failure and I volunteered to donate my kidney, I imagined I would have fear because, I think for a lot of us, our greatest fear is death. But even as I was being wheeled into the theatre, there was no moment of fear for me. My brother’s fear was the surgery would go wrong and he would end up wasting my kidney or my life. I just looked at him, smiled and said, “It’s going to be okay, the only thing I want you to do is to accept my kidney, just tell your body that this kidney is yours and your body will not reject it”. At that moment, I also learned the true meaning of love where you can sacrifice your life for somebody else. Many people go through life and never get to experience that. I think fear is what keeps these boxes around us so we never really live life to the full."
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