Pony: Heroics
10.25.2005
My co-workers' parents, from small-town ontario, were trapped in Cancun during hurricane wilma. Four days in a damp shelter with little more than their passports, a pillow and a blanket. "I never thought I would actually turn my underwear inside out to feel cleaner," her mom quipped.
"But those young mexican men who worked at the hotel. They were amazing. They never stopped working, trying to make us comfortable, with this positive attitude. Surely they had no idea where their own families were."
I was thinking about moments of heroism, and I was thinking of moments that people chose to rise above situtations, and do more than they are called on to do.
And then I was watching the news last night when i heard about Rosa Parks.
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Here's hoping we all get a chance in our lives to seize on a give-a-damn larger than ourselves.
