We Can T Change The World Analysis
We often lament that we can’t change the world; that we just have to accept things for what they are. More often than not we are right, we can’t change the world.
Or can we?
I was in WALMART the other day (how many world-changing stories begin in WALMART?) and there was a young woman in the check-out line in front of me buying a car battery. After she paid, she picked up the battery and walked it out of the store; I wanted to help her, it looked heavy, but I still had to check out my purchases.
Once outside the store, bundled up against the bitter cold that has embraced the east coast this week, I saw the young woman again, sitting in her SUV. Just as I passed, I heard the one thing that no driver ever wants to hear on such a bitter, cold …show more content…
After the accident, the traffic began to move and in just a few minutes we came to the first station. The young father was able to borrow a gas can, filled it with a few gallons, and in no time we were back on the road, and back to his frozen son.
He thanked me, and soon we were both off on our separate ways.
Now you are thinking, “Okay, Al, enough of this dribble, you told us how we could change the world”.
I may not have changed THE world, but I did change THEIR world.
For a young woman, stranded in the cold with a dead battery, I provided warmth, laughs, and lunch while her boyfriend figured out which WALMART she was at.
For a young boy, instead of sitting in the shivering cold not knowing when his dad was coming back, I returned his father to him in just a few minutes instead of an hour.
This is the thing, just help people. It doesn’t take a lot, it doesn’t take money, it may take some time, but we have enough of that to spare.
I also help people for an incredibly selfish reason – it makes me feel good (what a monster).
Later, when I told my ex-wife Arlene about what had happened that day, she looked at me and said,
“Who do you think you are, TRIPLE A?”
She paused, then said, “You’re SINGLE
Or can we?
I was in WALMART the other day (how many world-changing stories begin in WALMART?) and there was a young woman in the check-out line in front of me buying a car battery. After she paid, she picked up the battery and walked it out of the store; I wanted to help her, it looked heavy, but I still had to check out my purchases.
Once outside the store, bundled up against the bitter cold that has embraced the east coast this week, I saw the young woman again, sitting in her SUV. Just as I passed, I heard the one thing that no driver ever wants to hear on such a bitter, cold …show more content…
After the accident, the traffic began to move and in just a few minutes we came to the first station. The young father was able to borrow a gas can, filled it with a few gallons, and in no time we were back on the road, and back to his frozen son.
He thanked me, and soon we were both off on our separate ways.
Now you are thinking, “Okay, Al, enough of this dribble, you told us how we could change the world”.
I may not have changed THE world, but I did change THEIR world.
For a young woman, stranded in the cold with a dead battery, I provided warmth, laughs, and lunch while her boyfriend figured out which WALMART she was at.
For a young boy, instead of sitting in the shivering cold not knowing when his dad was coming back, I returned his father to him in just a few minutes instead of an hour.
This is the thing, just help people. It doesn’t take a lot, it doesn’t take money, it may take some time, but we have enough of that to spare.
I also help people for an incredibly selfish reason – it makes me feel good (what a monster).
Later, when I told my ex-wife Arlene about what had happened that day, she looked at me and said,
“Who do you think you are, TRIPLE A?”
She paused, then said, “You’re SINGLE