Last week I came across this photo, which went viral for all the right reasons. For those of you haven’t seen it, and those of you who have, how inspiring is this?

The photo caption reads: ” I don’t know if you can post this but I would like to thank the guy who was seated next to a special needs gentlemen…he allowed him to hold his hand and find comfort in a well packed bus…It makes my day when I see stuff like this.”
In the world we live in which is full of spine-chilling happenings and scary statistics at least we know there is a silver lining and that it’s not all bad. This is such a breath of fresh air!

This heart-warming post made me proud to just be. More reminders that there is good out there should be publicised more often. If we all focus on the good, the good will far outweigh the bad. I can only imagine how parents to special needs children feel about this.

I’m sure it has just restored their faith in society, being able to know that if ever their child needed comfort and support with them not around, that there is someone willing to offer that. If I could appeal to parents to raise their children, our future leaders to be there for people who need them and to see the beauty in each person, then this world will become a better place.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world. As human beings, our greatness lies in being able to remake ourselves. If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change.

Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have – or maybe even have thought about – while stuck in your old thought patterns. And the problem with changing your outer world without changing yourself is that you will still be you when you reach that change you have strived for.

You will still have your flaws, anger, negativity, self-sabotaging tendencies etc. intact. And so in this new situation you will still not find what you hoped for since your mind is still seeping with that negative stuff. And if you get more without having some insight into and distance from your ego it may grow more powerful.

Since your ego loves to divide things, to find enemies and to create separation it may start to try to create even more problems and conflicts in your life and world.” The above is one of the ten life lessons of Mahatma Gandhi, which I felt tied in with the above post.