There is hope for the world after all!

I wanted to put this here before it fades from the memory. We all hear of how its a dog-eat-dog world and I, myself have been guilty of getting disillusioned with all the exploitation, indifference, lack of morals, selfishness and the rest. But then again, there come days like today and the world redeems itself. This happened in the space of 2 hours.

I was on the bus to wherever and I stood up to offer my seat to a woman in her mid-thirties. A stop later, the woman I offered my seat to, stood up to offer the seat to a man in his seventies. As we stood and smiled at each other, we noticed an old man sitting immediately behind the drivers seat. And he was sitting there and holding his bags tight and blinking back his tears and they came faster than he could blink. No matter how much he tried to hide it, those tears refused to be hidden. This happened for 2 stops and 25mins. And I was thinking to myself. Some people cry because they are weak and lazy to face the world. Some others cry for sympathy. However, I could feel this man’s tears were of desperation, tears that come when you have done everything you can and yet your strength was not enough. A distraught man at the end of his tether. And strangely only 3 people (one of whom was myself) were even looking at him and wondering what could be troubling him. The rest of the people were not even aware of his existence, let alone his tears. And then he got off the bus. The woman I had given my seat to and I exchanged sighs and that’s when we saw it. This man had left a bag on the bus behind his seat. I pointed it out to the woman and she informed the bus driver. The driver said that he could not stop until the next stop. After a little egging from the woman, myself and a 14-15yr old girl, the driver stopped the bus about 400meters from where the man got off. He said he’d wait a minute to see if the man came back for the bag or he would have to continue on to the next stop. To which I protested that I would like to get off the bus with the bag and walk back to look for the man and return his bag. The driver refused saying that he was not allowed to open the doors of the bus just anywhere. He could only open the doors at the bus stops. At this point the woman and the teen opened the bag to find medical records in it and used that to coerce the