Since I started writing email newsletters back in 1999, I’ve written well over 1,000 of ‘em.

But yesterday’s email received the most responses. And 99.9 percent of them were positive.

(here’s a link to yesterday’s newsletter in case you missed it: http://tinyurl.com/ysoxkm)

With almost 100 blog comments and hundreds more via email, there was one person who did NOT agree with my actions.

I’ll leave her name out of it, but here was her unedited email response:

“Why do you have to get involved in other people’s business? Can’t you focus on yourself? There is no such thing as a good or bad guy. She is not a victim either.This is a way to disempower people. Let them resolve their own issue. They don’t need your
superhero protection.”

Thankfully, she was in the minority.

Can you imagine how cold the world would be if everyone thought like that.

Hey, I’m all for empowering people. In fact, I didn’t say one word to the guy, I told HER she can offer him MY seat.

It’s called stepping up and simply lending a hand.

It’s called not turning your head and waiting for other people to take action. Of course, no one else said a word on the plane.

It’s called doing the right thing.

If someone falls and slips, I will help them up.

If someone is walking into a store behind me, I will hold the door for them.

I hope if my wife was in the same situation as that woman and being bullied by a guy on the plane when I wasn’t around, someone else would have stepped in to lend a hand.

I’ll continue doing what I’ve always been taught to do. And it’s apparent there are thousands more on my list who are cut from the same cloth as I.

We are not superheros. We are just trying to be the best compassionate human beings we can possibly be.

We DO NOT sit on the sidelines.

We DO NOT keep our heads burried in the sand.

We DO NOT wait for others to act.

We take IMMEDIATE, DECISIVE ACTION.

And we don’t do it for the glory, for the praise or for the riches, we do it because it’s the right thing to do.

I forgot to mention, when I switched seats I was sitting next to a nice older woman, probably in her mid-80s.

She was having trouble with her seatbelt.So I offered her a hand and buckled her seat for her. I guess I should have let her struggle for an hour with her arthritic hands. Lord knows I didn’t want to disempower her.

As always, you can post your thoughts here.

Stay strong,
Ryan

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