I Was So Ill Walking Was Impossible When a Man Essentially Lifted Me to a Bathroom.

During my 19 years old, my regular journey to work involved an packed public transport. It remained full and invariably became completely full by the time I boarded.

On one specific day, I started experiencing incredibly sick as the bus swayed around each corner. I continuously reassured myself to endure just a little longer so the bus could got to my stop, at which point I could sprint quickly for the nearest public toilet to throw up.

As we neared the road leading to the destination as I realised I wasn’t going to last. All of a sudden, it felt as if a curtain fell over me. My vision turned white and really quiet; similar to when one turned off the audio. I thought, “I’m going to faint”.

Luckily I was near the front inside the vehicle, so I took a couple of steps forward and asked the driver to stop, telling him I was going to get ill. He opened the bus doors and I hurriedly stepped out onto the street.

My intention was not to vomit before a busy multi-lane road, so I picked myself up and endeavored to make my way toward the green space across the road, thinking I could I could at least discreetly hide among some shrubs to be sick. Yet I apparently fainted. I could feel my body but I was unable to walk or see clearly, so I began inching my way to my intended destination.

“Are you okay, dear?”

At that moment, I got scooped up. I sensed someone holding me and heard a man say, “Are you okay, dear?” I managed to tell the kind passerby that I had to to get to a bathroom. So he virtually carried me into an adjacent building and guided me in the ladies’ toilets. He wanted to know whether I required him to remain with me but I said no.

After a short while, I felt better enough to sit down and from the other side of the door I heard him ask, “Are you OK, love? Do you need anything?” I could not to rise right away but did manage to express my gratitude and shortly thereafter recovered the use of my feet. I got myself home and then spent several days recovering from what was later diagnosed as a nasty tummy bug.

I did not see his features – just his lower half and the big metal toolbox he had with him – but he saved me, at a moment I was completely helpless.

Frequently, society tends to make people self-protective, pushy, and rivalrous. What he did was the kind of action that undoes that emotional callousness. He demonstrated that humanity’s innate tendency is towards kindness, something I love about humanity.