Kindness and Compassion - Can Save a Live
If only we all found ways to extend simple acts of compassion and kindness.
It would change the world!A great tribute to one man's kindness in the news!Don Ritchie, 85, who lived across the road from The Gap – a treacherous coastal cliff in Sydney's east - would stop people in distress and say: "Is there something I could do to help you?" Hundreds of strangers subsequently stopped for his "kind word and a smile" and then changed their minds about jumping to the rocks below. Some had laid their shoes, wallets and a note on the coastal rocks and were poised to leap before being gently coaxed back from the edge. Officially, Mr Ritchie saved 160 people over the past 50-odd years, though his family believe the number is closer to 500.
Toward eupan!~ marty alan michelson, ph.d.
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