This is a true story.
Imagine that you are at a Wal-Mart around midnight. Dark parking lot. Little security and yet a number of random people wandering around. A man with a little boy thrown over his shoulder passes you. The little boy is screaming and kicking and crying and yelling for his mama.
The man slaps and spanks the boy and is telling him to shut up. He never uses the boy’s name. There is no woman near them and the man is moving faster. Also, imagine the boy is blond and the man has dark hair. Onlookers shake their heads but do nothing.
What would you do? Would you watch and not do anything? Or would you intervene? Social psychologists tell us there is a very good likelihood we will do nothing.
But this is the story of a woman, Pam, who did.
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The problem for me is that i am absolutely the type of person to get involved in such a situation, but that i tend to get too involved in situations and get told to butt out so there is a fine line.
Our lives are filled with stories. Stories both heard and told. IF BUT ONLY ONE STORY ABOUT ME IS TOLD, then my name is Pam.
My name is Mike,though.
Butt out, mind you own business or what concern is it of yours ……… is not ……… a reason, cause or justification to NOT DO THE RIGHT THING.
“the time is always ripe to do right.” Martin Luther King, Jr
I am not hero, but doing the right thing matters. I have been a hero in the past and paid the price of other’s ignorance. A price I pay everyday, willingly and without thought.
I tear up every time I read or hear of people who do the right thing.
I am me. To all the heroes out there, thank you.