Wednesday, December 17, 2008 . 11:58 AM

Been wanting to blog about this for a long time already...

People who know me know that I always complain about discourteous Singaporeans, e.g. those who block the entire width of the sidewalk and walk really slowly, those who smoke in particularly crowded areas when they're not supposed to, or those who shove their way into MRTs, not letting people alight etcetc.

Well last week, I observed something that gave me a warm feeling all over.

Wen Jia and I had just taken a very long train ride from Pasir Ris, from the Resonance Chlamp, all the way back to Clementi. With the lack of sleep and the super long journey, by the time we exited the train, we were bleary eyed and ready to collapse.

We didn't notice the blind man walking alongside us. Okay not exactly alongside us, but further away laterally. Such that he was walking towards the wall. We didn't notice it till he was tapping the wall and nearly walking into it.

That was when a woman ran forward and grabbed him to prevent him from crashing into the wall. Wen Jia and I assumed that the woman had something to do with the blind man, like she was his caretaker or relative or something, but on the escalator down, we overheard her asking him where he stays, how he's going to get back, and offering to take him to the bus interchange and wait with him until his bus comes.

Wow.

I really admire that woman. How many people observed that blind man walking in the wrong direction yet did not lift a finger to help him, but she was so quick to help and not only help in that particular instance, but help him all the way to the end... There's a chinese saying about this right?

Though I'm not Christian, I feel like saying...

God bless that woman :)

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

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