\u2018Watch your step, and mind the gap\u2019 the familiar\nmonotone of the MTR greeted me as always as I stepped out of the cabin. Feeling\ndrowsy and just a bit nervous, I began my journey to school. After I had passed\nthe gates, I immediately noticed that there was a faint sobbing noise. Thus, I\ndid what any curious teenager would do: I followed my sense of hearing and squeezed\nthrough the crowd in an attempt to locate the crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I ended up heading towards the other section of the\nMTR station to where I would normally head towards. The sobbing grew more and\nmore distinct as I slipped through crowds of people heading to work. And there\nit was. The sobbing was from a little girl, no more than five, standing near\nthe wall, shaking with sobs. She wiped her eyes ever so frequently, and her\nsleeves were damp with tears from her actions, yet her tears kept running down\nher face and hands, soaking the collar of her clothes. The child looked\nhelpless, yet to my utmost surprise, none of the passers-by had offered to lend\nher a hand, and instead they chose to walk around the child. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My heart went out to her, and without thinking twice,\nI knelt down and asked her what was wrong. She stuttered that she was lost,\nwith sobs interrupting her words. Since her words were barely audible, I\ncomforted her gently and asked her to what I could do to assist once her sobs\nhad subdued. She asked to borrow my cell\nphone, still gently sniffling, saying that she wanted to call her mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hesitated, remembering how teachers had repeatedly\nreminded me not to lend my valuables to strangers in case of them being stolen.\nAlthough it seemed very unlikely, the scamming industry often went out of their\nway to take money from the hands of others, and the newspapers had confirmed\nthat the scammers were more creative now than ever before, even recruiting\nchildren as their part of their scam. However, the overwhelming pity won over\nthe rational thoughts, and my sympathy towards the lost little girl overpowered\nmy fear of being scammed, thus I reached out and lent my phone to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I breathed a gigantic sigh of relief in my head as the\nlittle girl returned my phone as promised. As she turned to look at me, I\ncouldn\u2019t help but notice that her eyes were red and puffy from all the crying.\nOvercome by an urge to protect the little girl, I knelt down and soothed her\nwith promises of reunion with her mother soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not long after, a woman with eyes equally as red\nrushed up to the little girl, hugged her ever so tightly for a few long\nmoments, and burst into tears of relief and joy. The little girl returned the\ngesture by hugging her mother even tighter, and promised to never let go of her\nmother\u2019s hand ever again. The duo reuniting was truly an indescribably touching\nmoment. Tingles ran up my spine and my eyes filled with tears as I looked upon\nthis heartrending scene. My heart filled with shame as I thought of how my\nselfishness had almost doomed the little girl from finding her mother. Relief\nflooded over me like a tsunami as the mother and daughter finally broke into\ndazzling smiles. They thanked me gratefully again and again, only stopping when\nI explained that I was going to be late for class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes, all we need to do is to have a little trust\nin others in order to make a positive impact on others\u2019 lives. Under the threat\nof scammers and thieves, people have grown more and more indifferent over the\nyears. As a result, no one is willing to give a hand to those in need again,\nand relationships between strangers are filled with mistrust and suspicion. I\nbelieve that if everyone is can just have a bit of trust and compassion, building\nup a compassionate society would be a job done in no time. For better or for\nworse, the choice is all up to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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