One morning
while driving down the busy road from Mekhri Circle, you see this man
on a bike moving very slowly in the fast-moving traffic. Then you notice
the tiny little stray puppy running between him and the road divider.
The man was purposely riding slowly shielding the puppy and preventing
him from moving left into the traffic where he would be crushed to
death without a doubt.
And the puppy
unaware of danger so close at hand was happily running a marathon in
the straight line he was forced to run in, once in a while turning to
look at this funny guy keeping pace with him, smiling, with
that bungling innocence of all small animals.
"There is more to admire in people than to despise". So says the character of Bernard Rieux in Camus' "Plague", after 9 months in a plague-ravaged city. (A novel you had the good fortune of teaching for 3 years, a life-changing experience.)
Goodness is all around us, though it rarely makes it to newspaper headlines.
30 Oct 03
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