Who is the Good Samaritan in your life? Hiding around corners, quiet until you’re experiencing strife? Say you feel your heart erratically pounding, left armpit paining, and you fall, broken, gasping desperately to your knees, who is the stranger who steps forth, up and ahead, begins resuscitation, breathing life into your hungering lungs, to keep going that massive, yet weakening heart? Who remains calm, attends to you, keeping panic from your mind, helps you focus on the positive things instead, such as the future of your life? You’re a good Samaritan, too, you’ll help out humankind where you can, anyone in pain or suffering, of course, within reason, you’ll extend a helping hand. I think within us all – most of us – there is the propensity, the desire to help, to ensure the ailing, the suffering, the despairing, saddened, or sick are attended to, with a sense of hope and care ongoing. Empathy is within most of us, given the opportunity I’m sure we’d want to help, to better another's circumstances, or are my thoughts far too positive? I do not wish to overwhelm. But I hold hope for the general populace, their empathy, emotional intelligence held, whether developed rapidly or slowly, underneath we’re all Good-Samaritans-to-be, even if some of you think mine is an idealistic dream. © 2020 Lauren M. Hancock. All rights reserved. Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
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