I Was So Ill Walking Was Impossible Until a Fellow Passenger Essentially Lifted Me to a Restroom.

At the age of 19 years old, my morning travel meant taking an express bus. It was perpetually crowded and would always be without any seats by the time I boarded.

During a certain commute, I started experiencing terribly ill when the coach rocked around every turn. I repeatedly told myself to hold on just a little longer so the bus could reached my stop, at which point I could rush hurriedly for the nearest washroom to be sick.

We were coming down the road leading to the stop when I understood I would not be to hold on. All of a sudden, it was like a veil came over me. My vision turned hazy and muffled; as if someone muted everything. I thought, “I will lose consciousness”.

Thankfully, I was positioned toward the front of the bus, allowing me to take a couple of steps forward and asked the driver to stop, informing him that I was about to get ill. He promptly opened the entrance and I stumbled out out onto the street.

My intention was to avoid being sick in front of a busy multi-lane road, so I picked myself up and started trying to stumble to the park opposite the street, thinking I could I could at least discreetly hide behind a bush to vomit. But then I must have blacked out. I could feel my limbs, but I couldn’t walk and my vision was blurry, so I began dragging myself toward the grassy area.

“Everything alright, love?”

In that instant, someone picked me up. I sensed someone holding me and heard a man say, “You right, love?” I told this unknown man that I had to to be sick. So he virtually supported my weight over to a nearby building and placed me inside the women’s restroom. He inquired whether I required him to wait for me but I declined.

Not long after, I regained my composure enough to sit on the restroom floor and from outside the door I heard him ask, “Do you need anything, love? Do you need anything?” I could not to get up right away but I did succeed to say thank you and after a few more minutes recovered the use of my limbs. I got myself home passing the following days recovering from what was later diagnosed as a severe stomach virus.

I never saw the stranger’s face – only his legs along with a sizable steelwork tools container he had with him – but he saved me, when I was completely helpless.

Frequently, society tends to make people self-protective, pushy, and rivalrous. His act was the type of kindness that undoes that hardening of the heart. He demonstrated that humanity’s innate tendency leans toward compassion, a quality I adore about humanity.