Power to the People

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Sometimes I think that if I were in some sort of danger in public, there would be a lack of care because of the obsession society has with what constitutes as a 'good look'. In that case, I certainly do not have it. And I am glad.

I am glad because in yet another way I do not conform. But deep down, I know that apart from the distance I create between myself and others, that I protrude even more because of my lac of conformity. Sometimes it is beneficial for me to stay away from most of society, yet when it comes to things like careers or fitting within a group for the purpose of teamwork, it brings me down. As well as all of that, I am surrounded by people who would rather save true damsels in distress, the petite figured blonde girls who speak in a tone of voice three-hundred notches too high and one-hundred IQ points too low.

But today I read about a man from Perth who had his leg stuck between the train and the platform. Fellow transport travellers soon ran to his aid and assisted him in removing his leg without having his leg removed. He had slipped, and fallen through the gap during peak hour in the morning.

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It is breath-taking to see a large horde of absolute strangers gather together and assist this one man. This group of strangers, whose caffeine had not yet kicked in had used instead their adrenaline and leapt closer to the platform so as to push away as much as they can a heavy body of a train carriage. I wonder how much positive energy exists in the conglomeration of several good deeds at once in one area? However much does exist, I know for a fact that I wish I was in that energetic field this morning.

A while ago I was going to enter a writing competition based on compassion. I sat there for months, totally stumped on how to approach this huge theme that I had not witnessed a lot on. I had no experience in such a thing, it seems so surreal in a world focussed on fast living, capitalism and material objects. It has taken me until now to see that this is the form that compassion embodies. 

I hope that there are more humans out there that are like this. Not the ones standing there taking photographs of this occurrence, but the ones bending over the others in order to reach the carriage to assist that one man and his one leg.