This post focuses on my thoughts concerning an article I read in the papers a few days ago.
A reporter was making a documentary on whether strangers will help anyone in distress. She coincidentally slipped and fell. Someone came to her aid not realising she was a reporter. As a result my answer to the question ‘Any caring person out there?’ is yes, not because of that incident, but I believe there are still people who would choose to come to ones aid regardless of age, sex, race or appearance. Reminds me of the good samaritan? Every other person was pompous, couldn’t care less, had a complete disregard for the man in distress, but the samaritan acted differently.
The world is full of ups and downs, unfortunately one of the messages passed on to our children is hostility. There have been several people who have been abused, let down, dishonoured etc by people they loved or trusted and the worlds economic system. There is an absence of hope, so it’s very difficult for anyone rise to the occasion of coming to one’s aid.
The truth is we can, if we let go of� ’self’ and realise life is filled with various hurdles.
We can start out being nice or caring by doing little things such as flashing a smile to people(your colleagues, friends, family etc) whenever you see them, helping the old lady across the street or coming to the aid of a colleague when he/she needs a lift, doing something tangible e.tc. There are various charities, trusts all over the world, we could choose to be involved with.
Your actions don’t have to be extraordinary, but showing someone that you care in your own little way goes a long way.
Happiness gives rise to further happiness and there is a sense of fulfilment. There is a lot of tension released when� people show warmth and care to each other. We can be involved in several projects, feeding the homeless, fostering children, doing charitable deeds etc doing things that give joy or would put a smile on the faces of people.
I believe there are still nice and caring people around. Are you one of them?
Ayo Olaniyan is a certified Unitive Life Coach, an Accredited Professional Counsellor with the Counselling Society and the editor of The Life Skills Magazine. For further information, please complete this form.
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i certainly am one of them
Hi khan,
Thanks for stopping by.
It’s good to know you are one of the carig people out there
Hi Ayo. I loved your post and hope there are more caring people out there like your responder.
I thought I’d send your readers a little mystery story about caring. Everybody loves a mystery don’t they? Hope so. Anyhow, here goes. Imagine two arms, each with a hand, both part of one body. Unfortunately, these hands have no idea they’re attached to each other through a single person. Something’s gone wrong with their brains I guess, because they can’t see the simple truth. Namely, each hand actually IS the other. There’s no dividing line between them. Each different hand merges smoothly with the other via that one body. O.K., so now imagine the right hand couldn’t care less about his neighbor. He wouldn’t lift a hand….(pun intended)…to help the other guy out no matter what. He wouldn’t come to his neighbor’s aid, even if the other hand was in danger of being cut off, letting the body that nurtures them both bleed to death. A pretty sad and short-sighted state of affairs. Alright, so what do you think would happen if Mr. Right over there suddenly realized he and his worst buddy across the way were part of each other? Do you think he’d CARE more? I do. And where’s the mystery you ask? Well, you and I and everyone else are really like those hands. And the mystery is this. How come we can’t see it? Cheers Ayo. John Duffield
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Hello John,
Very interesting analogy given here. How come we can’t see the need to care for one another? I’d leave that for the readers to answer