In The Nick Of Time

One day, two police officers were driving up the Pali road when they saw, just beyond the railing that keeps the cars from rolling over, a young man preparing to jump. The police car stopped, and the officer on the right jumped out to grab the man but caught him just as he jumped, and he was himself being pulled over.

The second officer arrived just in time to pull the two of them back. The police officer who was willing to die for that unknown youth was risking everything—his duty to his family, his duty to his job, his duty to his own life—all of his wishes and hopes for his lifetime were about to disappear. He was about to die. Later, a newspaper reporter asked him, “Why didn’t you let go?

You could have been killed.” And his reported answer was, “I couldn’t let go. If I had let that young man go, I couldn’t have lived another day of my life.”