Every time I want to post an article I saw on facebook I look up
to see if another person had written about it and sure enough many have. Social
media is that way. We share all we know so today instead of re-inventing the
wheel I will share a post that made me cried.
‘Recently a social experiment was conducted titled “The Freezing
Homeless Child”. A YouTube channel ockTV went onto the streets of New York to
see how people would react if they saw a little boy disguised as a homeless
person. For two hours this little boy stood without a coat in the freezing cold
begging for food and money as hundreds of people flooded past him. Literally
for two full hours not a single person stopped to help this boy. They didn’t
even try to talk to him.
[Before I tell the rest of what happens I want to give a spoiler
alert – if you want to watch the entire video before you keep reading the
rest of the blog you can click and watch it at the bottom of today’s post first
before reading on]
Finally after two hours a man comes up to the boy who is now
wrapped in a trash bag to keep himself warm lying on the street. This man sits
next to him and asks how he is and takes off his own coat to place it on the
little boy. He then asks if the boy is hungry and give him what little money he
has in his own pocket. Next he leans down and hugs the little boy. He tells the
little boy not to lose hope because he is a homeless person himself but he
wants the little boy to know there is still hope for him. The only person, out
of the hundreds and hundreds of people that walked by this freezing little boy
on the street, that stopped to offer help was a homeless man…
“If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead
of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing nothing for nobody.” ~
Malcom Bane
What a wakeup call this video is for all of us. Every single one
of us has the capacity to make a difference in other people’s lives every
single day. Even if we just do the smallest acts of service for others we can
make a huge difference. And most important, we should never see someone in need
and not try to help in some way – even if it is just to let them know we care,
or to give a hug, or to share words of hope, everything makes a
difference…everything…”
I remember vividly once when I came up to go inside the
post office, there was a woman begging outside. She was wearing a scarf over
her head either to keep warm or because she was Muslim, I remember going to my
car to see if I had a pair of globes to give her and wanted truly to help her
but didn’t know what else to do. People do not get involved because of fear to trust
other people anymore. The last thing you
want is to become a victim of a crime and probably that is why people don’t usually
get involved when it comes to help a homeless person. However the Church is
always there to help and we should be very generous with our offering.
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