On the way home from work yesterday i noticed the ever increasing slowness as i attempted to board the 405 north, prepared for my 45 minute 5 o’clock drive home. It wasnt any slower than normal…so i wasnt alarmed…i just turned up the music and prepared to let my body do the driving while my brain drifted off in daydreams…
As i got closer…i could finally see it…
There was an Asian man who was dressed to the nines in his pinstripe suit and $300 shoes in the middle of the freeway holding up his right hand, and pushing a car with his left. His right hand was up to let other drivers on the freeway know to STOP. Not to drive. There was another hispanic man pushing the car on the inside of the driver’s side door….and another man…..a white man trying to get the car started on the inside.
The lady behind me was honking like crazy…if only she could see what i could see. Or maybe she could. She was in a Suburban, much higher than my car…she could definately see above me. Maybe….
she just didnt care.
As they struggled to push the car to the right shoulder, cars continued to drive and maneuver their ways around them as if to say, “sorry, but OUR cars work just fine”. I could only sit still and think…
What if that was me? What if i didnt have AAA to tow me somewhere? What if i was stranded without a cell phone? What if i was in the MIDDLE LANE of the 405 FREEWAY during RUSHHOUR without gas?
So i waited….until the car and the men who had literally RISKED THEIR LIVES …*because YES, the405 IS a risk.*.. had made it safely across to the right side.
The Asian man in his pinstripes slowly put his hand down and ran TOWARDS oncoming traffic TOWARDS his car which he had STOPPED and PARKED in the middle of the FREEWAY to help the man whose car was stuck. It wasnt as if the rest of the cars were still stopped….they had JUST realized that the road ahead was FREE and CLEAR for the next 1 MILE. Just one……ONLY 1 MILE. But it didnt matter to them that a man was trying to get to his car after doing a good deed…..the 405 had 1 MILE that was FREE of traffic and they were going to make it through. But i sat….and I thought…
What if I had risked my life to help someone and couldnt get back to MY car? What if I had stopped to help someone and noone wanted to help ME?
The truth is….I can only PRAY that someone would be as kind as to help ME the way the ASIAN man, in his pinstriped suit on his way home from work, stopped to help the white man. I can only PRAY that someone would be as kind as to help ME the way the Hispanic man, on his way home from a hard day of work, stopped to help the white man. And NO, this isnt about RACE…..this is about PEOPLE. I can only PRAY that someone/anyone would be as kind as to help ME the way those two men, helped that one man.
Think about it…..
Have a blessed Tuesday ya’ll…
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