Giving a Lift
Some Gentle Actions make a major change in society, others can be a simple act of kindness that can end up having an effect on a person’s life. I recently had an email from someone in Australia who would like to remain anonymous. She lives is a village outside Port Macquarie in New South Wales. It is a holiday spot with beautiful beaches and tourist attractions but also an area of many retired people. The only disadvantage is a poor bus service, with only four buses per day. Our correspondent has therefore made it a practice of stopping her can at these bus stops and offering to give elderly people a lift into town and drop them where they need to go. She is now planning to put up a notice in the local bakery offering a service to elderly and disabled people who need to got into town.
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By Sergio Stagnaro, January 23, 2010 @ 5:15 pm
My 53-year-long clinical experience allows me to state that the Gentle Actions which make a major change in society (in present case, Medicine) are the more difficult to realize, meeting troublesome situations, as well as structure paramount rigidity. I mean that the establishment does not like to loose power, even in the interest of mankind.
By David Peat, January 23, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
Well said Dr. Stagnaro. The establishment does not like to loose power!