Has a stranger ever made a deep or profound impact on you or your life?
Do you regret that you never got the opportunity to thank them for what they did for you?
Yes, a few years ago my son was in a bus crash and had a serious injury. As they removed the kids from the bus and put them in the median, several cars had stopped. One was a family with an off duty police officer and his wife. They stopped and sprang into action without a second thought. The woman held my son and the man talked to him and kept him calm until the paramedics could load him onto the ambulance.
The paramedic who assisted him was also fantastic. He was terrified and crying for me and I was 40 minutes away and it took awhile to get there. All 3 of those strangers helped him cope through those first moments of the worst trauma of his 12 year old life. That in turn helped me to get through the surgeries and such that followed for him.
I don't know who any of them were by name, so was not able to go back and thank them after the chaos and I sure wish I could. Everyone that day from the medics, the life flight crew and the strangers who stopped to help are always at the back of my mind. When I sometimes lose faith in humanity; I remember people like them and it reminds me that at their core, most people are actually very good.
by Richard Ricky Hale 12 years ago
If you see a stranger walking beside the road, do you pick them up?
by MummyTales 13 years ago
People are very closed up and keep to themselves in these times. But sometimes something may happen, or you may hear a story that compels you to give a person a hug, or someone could do it for you. How did it make you feel?
by Anish Patel 12 years ago
Which poet has had the most profound impact on you through their work?
by Josh Schaitel and Olivia Alverson 12 years ago
If you had a problem would you talk to a stranger about it? If you felt like no one listened to you and no one cared. You were also feeling really bad about something would you feel comfortable talking to a stranger knowing that you would probably never see them again unless you wanted too?
by Brinafr3sh 13 years ago
Do you consider yourself friendly to strangers?Speaking to new people is good for forming a possible conversation or friendship.
by Syed Awn Muhammad 13 years ago
Would you like to kiss a stranger?
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