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2007-05-02 15:49:41 · 8 answers · asked by Fluffy Wisdom 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have seen many things on TV of people doing great things for others, but I witnessed something personally that restored my faith in Humankind.
When I was a teenager, my parents and I were at a baseball game that we used to have at between our trailer park and another trailer park.
It was a fun event they did every Sunday, and we held it at a remote site overlooking Lake Ontario. It was a really windy day and the waves in the lake were huge. There were some kids playing near the bluff that overhangs the lake.
They suddenly rushed back yelling that someone needs help. I heard them first and shouted to everyone, and they took off running. Men scrambled down onto some rocks and dove into the rushing water, my Father was the first one in.
Two guys were in the water, one wasn't moving. My Dad got to one of them and someone else reached the other guy who wasn't moving. They brought them back to a flat rock and got the one up onto dry land. The one who wasn't concious they didn't want to move in case of a neck injury, so they laid him on the rock and men stood and knelt on the rock to form a wall around him as people took turns doing CPR...meanwhile a few people ran to the closest phone which was about 3 miles away or so and called 911.
I will never forget watching my Dad and the other men shielding that man's body, you could see blood coming from the knees of the men who knelt on the rough rock.
The ambulance took over 45 mins to reach us, and the guy died in the hospital. They said he would have died earlier had we not given him CPR.
They had been drinking and decided to go for a swim, which of course terribly dangerous.
Everyone at the campground was saddened of course and no one wanted to talk about it.
I remember though telling my Parents how everyone should be so proud, because without them the other man would have died as well. They saved a life by risking their own and although one man did die, they proved to everyone there, that people are not all selfish and that all life is important.
2007-05-02 16:03:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since I was already sore at Humankind, it wouldn't take much to be resored in my faith in Humankind.
2007-05-02 15:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I appreciate the efforts of the few who are truly working to change things for the better (& I try to be one of them,) but they still seem to be in the vast minority. The majority of humankind that I interact with on a daily basis are just inconsiderate idiots.
2007-05-02 15:56:39 · answer #3 · answered by kyralan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I carry a business size checkbook for all my business and shopping. It's like carrying a school size notebook. Twice I left it in the seat on the shopping cart at the grocery store. Twice it was returned to me untouched. Our business and lives would have been ruined had a dishonest person found it. This just doesn't happen these days.
2007-05-02 17:09:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Restored my faith in humankind? BWAaaaa haaaaaaa hee hee snicker snort drool snicker snicker giggle. I never had any to begin with. At birth some fool in a mask smacked me for doing nothing, and then had the nerve to tell me it was for my own good. Things went down hill from there.
2007-05-02 21:16:42 · answer #5 · answered by Gonealot R 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Liviu Lebrescu.
2007-05-02 15:59:27 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once in a while you meet a freed person who is soaring and happy and it's fun to hang out together for awhile
2007-05-02 15:53:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet. The problem is for every good person I meet, I seem to come across 2-3 a$$holes.
2007-05-02 15:52:38 · answer #8 · answered by somathus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋