This is wat happened...
i crossed the road in front of StanChart. Which gets me across the road to Wisma Cosway. There's a bus stop right in front of this building. Wen i was on this side of the road, i noticed a chinese man in his late 30's and an indian lady. the guy was sitting on the short wall right behind the bus stop. The lady was in pain, this can be seen.. she was in a fix-like state. People were just passing by them and the man was asking around to borrow a phone. He asked me too but i was too scared to stop. I was very very curious to help though coz the lady seemed to be in so much pain, so did the man with her. He was trying to calm her. The one who was physically in pain was the lady. I walked abt 20 more steps further away from there, n stood in a distance watching them. The man kept asking out for anyone to borrow their phone. But ppl juz ignored him n kept walkin on.
I went back to him and asked him y he needed the phone for. He explained that the lady was his wife and that he needed some help. He wanted to call the hospital to get an ambulance. I have never called for an ambulance be4 so i was kinda lost. i just dialled 911 which is actually 999 btw...
A chinese man in his late 20's (i think)also happened to stop by at the time so i asked him for the phone number juz to double confirm. He said tat he's gonna get the guards frm the wisma to help get an ambulance there. I just called for an ambulance immediately, gave them my phone contact and figured that i should just wait till they come. Shortly after, the chinese man who stood frm afar told me that the lady was just drunk!
He notioned me to ask the guard to double confirm. i spoke to the woman guard who said the same. i was shocked. i did get the strong smell of alchohol but didn't bother much about it, thinking more of the lady who was in pain.
I sat there with these two be4 meetin the guard. It was a very sad but touching scene... really... .there in front of me, i saw true love... of a caring husband towards his wife. There was nothing physically beautiful about them.. In a glance, the general public would dis-regard them as trash. They were dirty looking and i assumed that they might be homeless because they carried clothes in plastic bags. The only hunch i got about the couple was that they were probably abandoned by their children or the lady became emotionally unstable due to something bad that happened to them or even to her personally...
I mean, she is definitely all screwed up for turning to alcohol for solace but the man who was married to her stood by her.... now that is LOVE! He was angry and imagine the amount of ambarrasment he'd had to go thru.. he could have simply walked away frm there, from her that very instance but he didn't!....
Shortly after the ambulance came... i hope they got the woman into good hands.. n the man some peace of mind..
I saw LOVE come alive before my very eyes that day! amazing...
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