We rented bicycles this morning from the monastery. While others rode their bikes, mine kept loosing it's chain every once in a while. First time it happened, me and Manu managed to get the bike going after 10 minutes of manly effort. The second time the chain dropped we started to fix the bike in the middle of the road. As we saw a white van approaching from the distance, we moved the bike to the side of the road. The van stopped and out stepped a young man wearing sunglasses and white pants and said "one minute" and fixed the chain problem in one minute. We continued the bicycle ride amazed by this moment of helpfulness. A bit further along the chain dropped again. We started the fixing...until these two girls that are in the photo above, in their clean red silkdresses, stopped their bikes, got their hands dirty and put the chain back on. They viped their greasy hands to the grass by the side of the road and continued their way where ever they were going like it was nothing.
Juha
Nice friendly people you meet there :).
ReplyDeleteJuha, this was Like a fairytail of the land of boddhisatvas! But this really happened to you! My daughter Heta was also impressed of this story, first was like aww, so lovely and then became sad, because she understood deeply what kind of society our country is to grow up. People doesn't care about others and doesn't help others altruisticly. Hug to all! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments... amazing to hear that these little writings have some kind of an effect up north!
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