The Beauty of the Common Spirit –how hundreds reach out to help one man
Ok rabblers’, it’s going to take a second here to clear the tears from my eyes.
I’m sure there has been a point in everyone’s life where they were at a point of crisis, where they felt totally alone, a victim of fate or a campaign of social isolation, trapped in a perilous and seemingly inescapable death or serious wounding.
Maybe the situation does not even have to be dramatic.
Isolation from others due to chronic pain or chronic physical and mental diagnosed illness, a victim by being labeled a Targeted Individual.
Either way, life seems comprised of maybe 100s, maybe 1,000, maybe more people who don’t even know your name.
If they don’t even know your name, how can they care about you, consider you their kin?
Sure, this s how capitalism has taught us to feel.
But then a warmth builds up inside you, that transcends the very essence of who we are supposed to be; the fact that perhaps there is some mythological balance sheet or Santa Clause naughty list which marks the power-of-choice we have in deciding if we are allowed to care for some and who were are allowed to ignore and let go.
This morning on the news, I saw a video by Tunis Tribune.
The event they are reporting on – because I understand French – is at a train station in Perth, Australia. There had been an accident, where a man’s leg had fallen underneath the train platform and was trapped.
I don’t want to give too much narration as to what happens next because the video just-in-pictures explains itself.
I’ve watched this video on the power of the human spirit a few times, and have shed plenty of tears.
But if you do end up watching it, there is something simply miraculous about the coming-together of people from all sorts of paths in their lives. It takes a certain – and I don’t want to say special type of person unless we all realize that we are that special type of person, who stop everything to help comfort this man and see if they can save if not his limb but his life.
I don’t want to say more. You’ll have to watch the video yourself which runs 1:07 mins long.
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