Waves of Compassion

So earlier today, FuelMix teared up when he read that a group of environmentalists and vets in India, rescued a 50 year old elephant that had been brutalized and traumatized for most of its life by a series of "owners". The savagery meted out to this majestic animal enraged FuelMix.

In gratitude for its rescue, the elephant started to cry and tears rolled down its face.  All the humans involved in saving him, broke down and wept.

FuelMix went for a walk to clear his mind of human cruelty.

Sitting alone at a coffee shop, he and other customers were startled to hear violent screaming coming from a Chinese woman on the street.  She was walking past the coffee shop with her son,  who was about 4 or 5 years old, screaming at him at full volume, utterly enraged and irrational, sometimes walking, sometimes stopping, but incessantly berating and threatening the child.

The threats in Chinese were violent, hateful and explicit.  The little boy said nothing, cowering in fear and embarrassment. He was wiping tears from his face.  Passers by looked on aghast, said nothing and kept walking.

FuelMix felt the anger rising.  If there are 2 things he cannot bear are cruelty to animals and children.  Why was he seeing both within minutes of each other...?  What message was the Universe now delivering....?

Simultaneously, FuelMix and another man got out of their seats - but a European lady sitting nearby beat them to it....."I'll take care of this", she said and confronted the screaming Chinese mother.

"He's only a little boy..." she said calmly and firmly in English.  "That's enough. Leave him alone".  The boy's mother stopped the tirade immediately.  The little boy bowed his head in gratitude to the European lady and wiped more tears from his face.

The European lady returned to the coffee shop. "That woman is reeking of alcohol", she said, "what must that little boy be putting up with....??!!  She's probably a single mother with issues and taking it out on him.  The kid is absolutely defenceless."

"Just like that elephant", thought FuelMix, "and compassion freed him too".  Even if the European lady's intervention brought the little boy a few minutes of respite from the potentially violent tirade of his alcohol-laced, issue-ridden mother, it was worth it.

FuelMix understood the message the Universe was sending: Compassion is a force in nature. It was Albert Einstein who said, "nothing happens till something moves."

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