Mary Kay Ash has done so many things in her life. She broke barriers. She was successful, rich, and world renowned. However, she had another barrier she wanted to break down. However, she couldn’t break this one by herself. Also, it took death by a near and dear husband to trigger this reaction. But the principle is the same. She wanted to put other people ahead of her friends and family because she cared about the world so very much.
The little pain we are talking about is cancer. It is horrible. It kills so many people. One day, the legendary Mary Kay was struck by it. Perhaps not directly, but it had just as big an impact on her life. Her dead husband, only because of cancer, triggered Mary Kay into a frenzy. She cared for him so deeply, that after mourning him properly, she did something about the cause. She didn’t mope but went out and fundraised to cure cancer. She may have saved many lives too. In 1993, she had a cancer research center founded in her namesake in Dallas, Texas. Now this may seem like a minor thing because now we have cancer centers all over the place. But in 1993, this was huge because this may have given us some of the groundbreaking discoveries we have now. Mary Kay was crucial in making people aware of cancer and the harm it can bring.
Mary Kay Ash is a great woman, but this tragedy helped her spread her reach into people’s lives even more and she saved so many, mankind as a whole should be grateful. It just shows that Mary Kay cares about everybody, and wants everybody to live a wonderful life, and then goes out and grabs the problem by the horns. This daring and caring is what makes her the greatest American ever. It is unfortunate that it cost her husband his life, but the truth in life usually is there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel, and that proved true in Mary Kay’s case.
Work Cited
Newsmakers. "Mary Kay Ash." Biography Resource Center. Gale, 1996. Web. 27 Feb. 2010
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