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Couple Caught Slipping Something Into Homeless Man’s Bag. They Didn’t Realize Anyone Saw, But Then…
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A couple’s compassionate gesture is causing people to think in one Chicago community after a bystander snapped a picture of their random act of kindness and blasted it on social media.
Jack Stankovic, the bystander on the Blue Line train watching the couple, said he wanted to point out that people should keep looking up at the world around them.
“I posted the picture because, at the time, everyone on the train was heads-down on their phones,” Stankovic told a Chicago newspaper. “We see so much negativity on a daily basis on social media. If we only took the time to look at our surroundings, we would see the positive things happening around us. We, as a society, talk about change, but rarely do we act on it. The picture symbolizes action.”
The act of kindness that Stankovic witnessed was a couple putting money into a homeless man’s bag as they were getting off at the Irving Park Station. He wasn’t asking for it. The homeless man was asleep. It wasn’t spare change either. The couple weren’t being obvious and didn’t wait around for a thank you.
“Thank you sir for reestablishing my faith in humanity,” Stankovic posted with a picture of the couple as they were getting off the train. “You sir are a true gentleman….. Let’s all share and thank this guy and his girl.”
Please share. These 2 people must be put on blast. I am on the #blueline heading towards the city when I spot…
Posted by Jack Stankovic on Sunday, November 1, 2015
The post has been shared more than 73,000 times as of this writing.
The couple, Countney White and his wife Tanya Prewitt-White, said it was a spontaneous gesture. The two were coming back from the funeral of White’s grandmother in Alabama when they took the Blue Line train Nov. 1 for the final leg of their trip home. Prewitt White, 33, said she had gotten some money out to give the man as they were nearing Irving Park.
“My husband had the same idea, so he already had money out to give him. I handed my additional money to my husband, and he just slipped it all into the gentleman’s bag, and we walked off,” Prewitt-White said.
White, 42, gently woke the man to make sure he didn’t accidentally drop the money should he pull something out of the bag. He watched the man through the window as he stepped onto the platform. The man looked a little confused about it all, White said.
“You can’t put into words the feeling I had that day. It’s like everything was right in the world for a brief moment,” White said.
The blast resulted in Facebook messages to the couple from both overseas and across the United States. White’s co-workers at Downers Grove North, where he chairs the physical education department, have shared the picture with the school community.
Pewitt-White, a sport and health psychology professor at Adler University, said the couple tries to pay it forward, and that she makes an effort to keep her resolution to take a homeless person to eat once a week. The couple talks about being aware of others at home, she said.
“My husband and I talk about this all the time — about our own self-righteousness, about how it’s easier to become hardened and not make eye contact or smile at people who appear homeless because then you don’t have to look pain and suffering in the face. It’s definitely been a journey for the two of us.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/couple-caught-slipping-something-into-homeless-mans-bag-they-didnt-realize-anyone-saw-but-then/
SOoooooooooooo there are people that actually care and do something good without personal recognition or reward……yes they were not on the internet like everyone else was….LOL
I commend them highly for their cause of helping by doing it personally. WHO CARES? they did why didn’t or do YOU?
There is a lesson here for YOU readers to learn.