Humanity!

Folks,
Last week i was travelling back from one of the ME countries to Dubai and met up with this guy.
The airport authorities changed the boarding gate just an hour before the scheduled take off. ( this happens very often now a days, and one has to keep an eye on the TV monitors and keep checking the boarding gate and the time)
We were waiting for our turn at the boarding gate and as I was getting my passport and boarding pass checked, our friend, who was standing behind me, realised that two of our fellow passengers, whom he had helped earlier while checking in, were walking towards the other gate!(the old one) He told me that they dont speak English or Arabic and obviously not guided properly about the change in the boarding gate, by the airport staff. He ran, probably around 3-400 meters to catch them, informed them, came back running and stood at the tail end of the queue. I was overhelmed by this 'gesture'. Many of us, in our rush to get inside the aircraft, secure the overhead bins, would have just informed the staff to help and manage the situation! Such kind of gestures have become rarity in this fast paced world. I could not see him again as he rushed off, upon landing, to catch his connecting flight. The fellow passengers whom he helped were Srilankans and they knew only Sinhalese! I said hallo to them and they were immensely happy with the help they got from our friend.
He is Suman Avula and he can be reached at sumanavula@neulandlabs.com
I would appreciate if you can just send him a mail appreciating this gesture!!
This world need more Sumans.
Cheers

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Friendship as per Khalil Gibron

Episode 7

On Friendship:  

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the ‘nay’ in your own mind, nor do you withhold the ‘ay’. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Your Friendly

RL Rajah

20/06/21