Rob's Blog

The world isn’t so bad after all
22nd Jan 2007 15:01

In amongst all the wars, executions, natural disasters and serial killers there's been a couple of moments recently that have restored my faith in mankind. The first was seeing Richard Hammond talking to Jonathan Ross just before Christmas. That's a story that was surely meant to end a lot worse than it did, and there's something about it that's definitely verging on miraculous. It's not even like I'm a huge car enthusiast, but that was one of the moments that made Christmas feel all Christmassy this year. The second was Hazel getting her wallet back yesterday. She lost it on Saturday night. Due to an evidently rather impressive intake of alcohol she was entirely unable to remember quite where she lost it. Needless to say it was somewhere between leaving the house and staggering back in again at silly o'clock (i can't actually verify this as I was completely hammered with Wes in Ealing at the time). On Sunday morning, out of the blue, the doorbell rang and her wallet was returned by a girl who had found it lying in the street on Saturday night. The wallet still contained its unspent cash, and the girl wouldn't even accept Hazel's profuse offering of a fiver to say thanks. A completely unprompted act of human kindness from one stranger to another, with no more motivation that a desire to make the world a slightly better place by doing the right thing. Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?