On the road

30 Oct 03, Thursday

One morning while driving down the busy road from M Circle, I notice this man on a bike moving very slowly in the fast-moving traffic. Then I notice the tiny little stray puppy running between him and the road divider. The man was purposely riding slowly shielding the puppy and preventing him from moving left into the traffic where he would be crushed to death without a doubt. And the puppy unaware of danger so close at hand was happily running a marathon in the straight line he was forced to run in, once in a while turning to look at this funny guy keeping pace with him.

"There is more to admire in people than to despise". So says the character of Bernard Rieux in Camus' "Plague", after 9 months in a plague-ravaged city.

Goodness is all around us, though it rarely makes it to newspaper headlines.