WWJD

It was a good start of a new year. Fireworks at midnight, Prospect Park's red skies, and a feeling of unity among all the participants. Cary and I did not manage to drink a toast with champagne from the bottle that our friends brought with them. We were busy snapping photos. Not far from us there was a group of people who had a bottle of white with them. They offered us some. Thanks to the kindness of strangers, we toasted the beginnning of NEW year.
And the next day newspapers and TV stations had spread the jolly good news of a man who saved another man's life on a subway tracks. NYU student was having a seizure on the subway platform, three people standing next to him noticed it and rushed to assist him. One of the three people, a construction worker, was going home with his two little daughters, to drop them off and go work a night shift. But. He never went to work that night. The student, after gaining conscience, stood up and stumbled. He fell on a subway track. Meanwhile, the train was just a few feet from him, and still going (the driver tried to stop, but he was too close). Not thinking too much, the construction worker jumped down, covering the man's body with his own. He pressed him down while the subway car reached the platform above their heads. The construction guy's hat got smeared with the grease from underneath a subway car. But he was alive, saving the other guy's life, too.
My heart grew when I heard this story. I couldn't stop looking at photos of a simple man who didn't think twice before risking his own life to save the other's. And a smear on his cap almost made me cry. I cried out loud when I saw the same guy interviewed by David Letterman. "Sometimes you gots do to what you gots to do" - that was the jist of a guy's attitude. Simple, huh? Not that simple when you think about two little girls who were still at the platform, taken aside by another kind stranger.
But it got me thinking: how many of us standing on this platform would do the same? Let's say there were 100 people at the station that day. Only three of them rushed to help the man wth a seizure. And one of them finally saved the man's life. What would you do? What would Jesus do?
What would I do?