Not twenty minutes ago I was walking home from la escuela in the beautiful sunshine, feeling good about life and looking forward to a long evening of writing a partial research paper. About 40 feet ahead of me was an army dude. About twenty feet ahead of him was a dude in a wheelchair. We were all walking/rolling home from campus. At the same time. In a linear fashion.
Some time passed and I noticed that the army dude was still about the same distance ahead of me, but in his normal walking pace, he naturally came upon the slower moving wheelchair man. So, when the time came for army dude to pass wheelchair dude, I saw something really great.
Army dude began to walk alongside wheelchair dude and make conversation. After a few moments, army dude made his way behind wheelchair dude, took the handles, and began the descent down 800 East. Now, if you don't know, that hill is a beast. A typically (let's be politically correct, now) walking human has trouble enough walking down that thing, but try wheeling a chair down it!
Well this army dude had the heart to make a new friend and do a little service by "pushing" wheelchair man down the hill - which actually required holding him back so he wouldn't go flying out of control.
I, of course, caught up to them in no time, only to hear them having pleasant conversation.
I smiled.
And then I took a pic.
And then I walked behind them all the way down the hill.
This is precious. Remind me to tell you about the little girl who came up and talked to me while I was at work yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAwwwe Brittan I so hope you continue to blog. Thanks for sharing that tender mercy moment it just multiplies the goodness :)
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