You and your best friend have gone sailing. It's been a beautiful week so far. Great weather, great fishing, great scenery.
Then the clouds darken, the wind grows fiercer by the hour.
You were sleeping when it happened, your best friend was on the deck. He should have radioed for help, but he didn't know how to! Your friend should have woken you up, but he let you sleep, thinking he could manage on his own. By the time you wake up, the sea is throwing the ship around - huge fifteen meter waves are threatening to swallow the ship.
YOu stumble onto the deck, pissed, frightened and upset. Upset at your friend for screwing up, for not knowing how to use the radio, for letting you sleep.
And as you stumble onto deck and try and regain control, a huge wave hits the deck, washing your friend off the side - your friend clutches the guardrail desperately, legs flailing below, desperate to hold on.
What do you do?
Teach him how to run the radio, scream at him for being stupid, or do you reach out and grab his hand and pull him to safety? You have 3 seconds to make that decision.
It's the difference between best friends, and people who can only aspire to be.
2 comments:
The most instintive action of course would be to give your hand and try to pull that person to safety! And I think that would be my reaction irrespective of whether that person is a friend or a best friend.
Frankly, that will pretty much be the only thing I can think about. And when I have saved that person, I will ask him / her about why he / she did not wake me up when so much was happening while I was sleeping.
It was a rhetorical question - and yet, I know, when similar things happen in life, we usually stop to argue and fight, rather than grab the hand!
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