In our everyday life we are all busy. Most of us commuting from where we are to where we want to reach. Passing numerous strangers. Some share a smile and most are masked faces. During covid-19 this was put at halt as most countries went into lock down but today as we learn to live with Covid 19 we are moving on and coming in contact with so many people than we did in last gone year of global pandemic.
On one such day, as I travel in a bus going to my destination the bus yet again jammed pack. Men, women and children getting in. Let's be real the 80% capacity basically is an unfollowed law. On a day sweaty day in a moving jammed bus the driver keeps jamming with more and more people in. As the people still try to find a place to sit the driver hits the accelerator and the bus is on the move again. As the bus comes to a stop a petite elderly woman in her hijab entered the bus, I see her looking across the bus for an empty seat. My reflex was to get up and offer my seat and just then the driver hits the accelerator again. The bus on the move rapidly and as a chain reaction two women put their kids on their lap and another man gets up and offers his seat to me and I sit in rush scared as I was about to fall. All of this happened in probably five seconds.
As I sat on the seat of another man, I wondered how we strangers to each other on a hot sweaty day helped each other with minute action of goodness. With one action creating a domino effect of another act of kindness. How we humans are so capable of kindness in every situation big or small. Even when we dont know the other person.
As the bus, hitting bumps moved on, a small kid entered the bus with his parent. This kind man who gave up his seat for me yet again got up and helped the small kid sit on his place. I admired this action beyond words. How kindness doesn't change with age or gender. How being kind and good doesnt depend on the situation or person. One kind act does truly create a chain reaction that would cause more and more acts that are selfless good deed.
My heart fills with so much contentment to see a fellow human being kind to another.
As everyday I believe more in how amazing we are as humans. How capable we are of love and kindness. How capable we are of offering our gestures to those we know and those we don't. This world is such an amazing place and I am so happy to live in it.
