I saw an older man fall on a busy road today. I did a u-turn to help him and 3 other people joined. Two of us helped get him back on his feet while another took down his information. He was shaking from the impact and a bit scraped and bloody. He asked for help to the bus stop, instead he was given a ride home. Strangers all of us, who knew to take care a fellow human.
We may be ruled by monsters but there are still decent people out there.
@soragrey Unrelated but related. 20 years ago, I had a car accident. I was in the right lane of an interstate, doin' 70, and someone merging in jumped in front of me doing 30 mph. I swerved to avoid them, and my car spun out of control, did a 360, and rode half-on half-off a jersey rail for a hundred meters.
So. I'm fine -- stiff as all hell tomorrow, but fine -- and the car's there, and some guy comes running up. He checks on me, and then he runs back to his own car, and barrels down the road.
@soragrey HiPo arrives, and I'm fine, and he's interviewing me. I was uninsured, which got me in big trouble, but other than that. True story, I told the guy I was uninsured, and he turned around and said, "Thank you! You wouldn't believe how many people think we don't check."
Anyway, suddenly, someone is tapping on the HiPo's window.
It's the guy who checked on me.
He'd raced away to get the license of the car that caused the accident, and he'd seen it all, and he would testify.
@soragrey He didn't need to do that. But he did. And he showed up in court, too.
(I still got hammered for no insurance, but the person who caused the accident was a commercial driver, and he got busted even harder.)
@soragrey Okay. Hmmm. It's late Saturday night, and my story is much more "crime and punishment" than yours. I feel now kinda embarrassed for offering it.
But I thought it was very kind of that stranger, who saw the accident, to go track down the cause, and come back and tell the patrolman what caused it, and showed up in court to testify.
Not as clean and gentle, as helping the old man, I freely admit. But I thought it was kind.
@soragrey This is so wonderful. Well done. The paradox for those who would not help is that helping connects with someone in need in a synergistic manner - it is not a one way offering - many these days so spoilt with the online take-take-take culture they seem profoundly avoidant of giving.
I give away jewellery I have made and books I have written to many nice people. Almost none seem to reciprocate or give any feedback on the book. It is sad.
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