I read and and commented on a post about a person in USA suddenly having a heart attack in a car and a stranger attending to him and saving him from an instant death.
In the post he mentions that one major takeaway from the incident is about paying attention to things around you, in his some stranger paying attention to him, to save him from the brink of death.
This kindled my memory and brought out an an incident that happened in my life, of saving a life. I haven’t chest thumped it by telling it to the world, but I explain it below so that any of the reader may get a motivation to pay attention to things around, to the extent of a saving a dear life.
The members of an internationally affiliated social club of Cochin where I was a member & an office bearer, were doing a pleasure ride cum family dinner on a cruze boat on the backwaters of Cochin. It started by late evening and we concluded the official meeting in the first hour. Later by about 7.30 pm, the boat was brought and anchored at the Fine Arts Hall jetty to load the dinner from a reputed restaurant in the city and after that, the boat was about to resume the journey. Along with the club President and two three other office bearers, I too alighted from the boat and volunteered to get the food inside. One by one everyone from outside boarded the boat back and the president and I were the last to board. Without us realising, by then, the boat was moving off slowly (probably the carelessness of the boat driver)
One must admit that we were a little tipsy with the beer intake during the trip and as our president tried to jump into the boat, the boat having moved off, he went straight into the deep water (indeed deeper as this jetty was used by big cruze and cargo boats) and being dark already, no one watching to raise an alarm!
Having seen him falling into water, at that moment, from out of the blue, it dawned on me that a person who falls into deep water like this, will come up in a few seconds before going down again and calling the attention of the people on this side, standing on the steps, I waited for his body to come up and I wasn’t disappointed. As he came up,I grabbed him by the hair and pulled him up. All these happened in a few seconds. After the first aid and all, we resumed the journey.
People later told me that if he wasn’t pulled out then, his would have been a gone case.
It had happened in his midlife and our then president, after having a full career, including that in GCC nations, is now living a peaceful retired life in Cochin. May be at times, he would remembering the accident. Initially around the date, I used to get his mail/call.
Yes, paying attention on things around you helps and by virtue of it, you could probably be saving someone’s life too
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