"Grandmother, please let me help you cross this street!"
I've seen a few videos where a babushka is waiting for a chance to cross the street and finally a real man stops traffic and walks her across the road. Seeing these videos lifts my spirit.
Words like honor, respect and shame are sorely missing from our lexicon these days. God Bless these Men who stop and show respect for our elders.
I'm in my 80s. I have to use a walker at this stage of my life. It's painful for me to walk; it's painful for me to stand in place. I "cross at the green, not in-between" just as I was taught in kindergarten in the Bronx in the mid '40s. I'm grateful to the people who offer to help me (particularly if it's a short light) and, believe me, I have rachmones for the guy, but ...
empathy is too high-falutin' and pity is just too snotty - and although I escaped NYC a long, long time ago, it tends to stick; y' need Gre-Solvent to scrub it off and even then...
Thank you, God, for putting some good-hearted people into our World today … we so desperately need to have them present in this time of such great evil …
The family used to purchase taxi fair books for my grandmother so she could remain independent, it would be nice if taxi services, uber and such would help the elderly to get from place to place and not charge much to do so, kindness does not cost money and should not cost a dime.
I feel better, now.
ReplyDeleteIt ain't the US. If it was, the old guy would have been ticketed for jaywalking.
ReplyDeleteRussian nomenclature on the vehicles license plates, I think. Moscow?
Deletekindness is something that cost us little to nothing to do, yet most will never even try it.
ReplyDelete^^ THIS ^^ ! AMEN !
DeleteLittle heroisms in a Go, Go, Go world.
ReplyDeleteI'll protect Firemen and EMS.
Agreed, but with a minor correction: firemen tend boilers; firefighters fight fires.
DeleteMay those people be blessed beyond their wildest dreams. Its things like this that give me faith in humanity.
ReplyDeleteIt's part of why we're here. To take care of each other.
ReplyDeleteThis is beauty.
ReplyDelete"Grandmother, please let me help you cross this street!"
I've seen a few videos where a babushka is waiting for a chance to cross the street and finally a real man stops traffic and walks her across the road. Seeing these videos lifts my spirit.
Words like honor, respect and shame are sorely missing from our lexicon these days. God Bless these Men who stop and show respect for our elders.
That was beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI'm in my 80s. I have to use a walker at this stage of my life. It's painful for me to walk; it's painful for me to stand in place. I "cross at the green, not in-between" just as I was taught in kindergarten in the Bronx in the mid '40s. I'm grateful to the people who offer to help me (particularly if it's a short light) and, believe me, I have rachmones for the guy, but ...
ReplyDeleteI had to look up 'rachmones'. That's a good word!
ReplyDeleteempathy is too high-falutin' and pity is just too snotty - and although I escaped NYC a long, long time ago, it tends to stick; y' need Gre-Solvent to scrub it off and even then...
DeleteThank you, God, for putting some good-hearted people into our World today … we so desperately need to have them present in this time of such great evil …
ReplyDeleteThe family used to purchase taxi fair books for my grandmother so she could remain independent, it would be nice if taxi services, uber and such would help the elderly to get from place to place and not charge much to do so, kindness does not cost money and should not cost a dime.
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