Friday, January 11, 2008

Humble...It's still there

Today, after dinner when I got back to the fair area where I'm working at something happened which rather touched my heart.

There was this English guy if not mistaken it's an Australian and he was wearing this leather shoe which is rather hard on the sole and like most of you probably could guessed it,
he steps on a very young child's feet
poor kid she kept crying and crying and crying so the Australian kept apologizing and if you were there you'd know how bad he felt.

The mother of the kid kept saying "he said sorry already ok ok stop crying good girl~~" but nope she didn't stop but when the mom was paying for the books she stopped for a while and then continued crying like she needed to grab a breath and then the most surprising thing happened~
The Australian's friend was in the line and he quickly grabbed a box of color pencil and asked his friend to pay and then he ran to catch the mother and the kid that's still crying and if I'm not mistaken he said "I'm terribly sorry here, take this" note that I'm not a lip reader but I think it was pretty much like that and although the mother didn't wanna take it he kept shoving the box of the color pencil and then the kid took the color pencil and stopped crying. The look on the face of the man was showing that he was pretty much relieved.

This is something you don't see everyday and most certainly not from most Malaysians simply because
1) Most Malaysians don't wear leather shoe with a hard sole and;
2)Malaysians are usually rather selfish so they'll say "sorry ah" then trot away just like that

Somehow this incident reminds me of the very thing that matters the most in our country and also everywhere else,

being humble.

So, stay humble so others will to you and thus, making this, a better place.
Regards.

2 comments:

I Am Kapster said...

If it's me I'll feel rather bad just that I won't buy a box of colour pencils to apologize! Sweets perhaps? Maybe it's a wise move to carry some next time!

Eddy said...

ya but this just shows some people are really nice..