Sometimes we stop to help others and they end up helping us.
Four years ago Blake Dyason started a movement called Love Our Trails, which focuses on educating trail users about what it means to care for our trails and environment. Together with a group of interested people and organisations, Blake regularly hosts clean-ups, gives talks and shares his thoughts wherever he finds a platform.
Dyason is a good guy and is always helping where he can. He regularly inspires others to do good too… we’ve even featured him here a number of times but this time, a blind man helped him and thousands of South African social media users ‘see’ again.
Dyason met a blind man while stuck in traffic, on his way home.
“Humbling end to the week, driving home in traffic after a short run in the rain, I noticed a blind man looking lost and walking into a dead end.
“I quickly pulled over and chatted to him. He had been waiting for 3 hours for his lift, the roads were too busy and no one obeys the robots so he could cross roads to get to the taxi rank, so he was standing in the rain hoping his lift comes.”
Dyason was left heartbroken that this man was left by himself, with no assistance. So he did a detour while taking him to the taxi rank and drew some money for him.
“Wow he made me see the world differently, I am incredibly grateful for my vision but even more, he showed me what it means to trust, he couldn’t see me or where I was taking him, but he listened, asked questions and trusted his gut.”
“Sometimes we stop to help others and they end up helping us.”
Since posting about the humbling story, thousands of social media users have said how they too have forgotten to ‘see’ South Africans in need, on our roads, begging for help.
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And that is really what the intention of the post was… to inspire South Africans to help each other.
But Dyason isn’t stopping there. The original post was more about the situation and how it opened his eyes and the inspirational South African is planning on taking it one step further.
“I have learnt that Cape Town isn’t suitable for blind or disabled and I will be taking that further to see how we can make it possible for the blind and disabled to work and travel alone in the city.”
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