Josh showed me what it meant to be a good person ~ Oliver Human
I am fasting for the release of Josh and Shane. It is a tiny act of solidarity for my friend who I’ve only had a short time to know. Food is actually the reason I came to admire Josh to the extent I have.
We were together one morning in a township in South Africa when he was on the IHP tour (this is where I met him). After a night of braaiing (barbequing) with the students, Josh and I were walking to class past the creche which hosted the braai. We dropped by to make sure that everything was in order from the previous night’s festivities.
When we walked in and asked, the response from the lady who ran the kitchen was that she had a problem and promptly led us to the kitchen sink which was blocked. Without even blinking an eye, Josh immediately set about the task of taking the kitchen sink to pieces in order to solve this problem (which in the end wasn’t even his). I was truly impressed and I think the lady who ran the kitchen even more so as this foreign visitor was so willing to get down on his hands and knees and fix the problem himself. It was a huge job of taking the plumbing apart to dislodge a chicken bone deep in the kitchen’s waste water outlet.
It is hard to describe to those who haven’t spent time in South Africa the truly impressive nature of this act in which a wealthy visitor gets his hands dirty to help somebody from the poorest strata of society without even a blink of an eye. I am fasting, if not for anything else, for this one small act of humanity in which Josh showed me what it meant to be a good person.
~ Oliver Human
Stellenbosch, South Africa
NB: For more information on the rolling hunger strike for Shane & Josh and how you can join in see http://bit.ly/SSJfast
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