In your doze of the beautiful reads of the day we bring you this heart warming story narrated by a woman at the airport. In the world where people can laugh, judge, capture, get angry at your difficulties. There comes a story where people instead of doing all that actually helped.
Story of a young mom struggling to take care of her toddler, who helped by complete strangers. Parenting is not an easy jobs, sometimes kids are a real tough handle. And especially when you are alone. This story of will definitely give you the calm that good people still exists and they are the reason why this planet still exists. Go on read this story, and it will leave you with a teary eye and a smile on your face. Stories like this one simply cleanse your soul.
Something extraordinary at LAX today… (writing this on the plane). I was at the gate, waiting to get on my plane to Portland. Flights to two different cities were boarding on either side of the Portland fight. A toddler who looked to be eighteen or so months old was having a total meltdown, running between the seats, kicking and screaming, then lying on the ground, refusing to board the plane (which was not going to Portland). His young mom, who was clearly pregnant and travelling alone with her son, became completely overwhelmed… she couldn’t pick him up because he was so upset, he kept running away from her, then lying down on the ground, kicking and screaming again. The mother finally sat down on the floor and put her head in her hands, with her kid next to her still having a meltdown, and started crying. Then, this gorgeous thing (I’m crying just writing this)… the women in the terminal, there must have been six or seven of us, not women who knew each other, approached and surrounded her and the little boy and we knelt down and formed a circle around them. I sang “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” to the little boy… one woman had an orange that she peeled, one woman had a little toy in her bag that she let the toddler play with, another woman gave the mom a bottle of water. Someone else helped the mom get the kid’s sippy cup out of her bag and give it to him. It was so gorgeous, there was no discussion and no one knew anyone else, but we were able to calm them both down, and she got her child on the plane. Only women approached. After they went through the door we all went back to our separate seats and didn’t talk about it… we were strangers, gathering to solve something. It occurred to me that a circle of women, with a mission, can save the world. I will never forget that moment.
A big thanks Beth Bornstein Dunnington who shared this story in a facebook post. Making us all believe in the angles that still exists on earth in simple human beings.
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