Not Helping The Ones In Need
An old man with a cane gets off a TTC subway train, he steps onto an escalator, thats going up. His foot gets caught at the end, he trips and falls and bangs his knee on the ground. Your train has just arrived. What would you do?
Would you miss this train to go help the old man up, make sure hes ok or would you just get on and let the other people who are closer to him go and help him.
2 other people and myself, did not help the old man and decided to get on the train. Why didn't we help him, i honestly don't know. I'm guessing maybe because we didn't want to wait for another train. At this moment as i'm typing this, i regret what we did that day.
Why am i writing this, you may ask?
In parkour, the first thing that we're taught/shown are the movements. We train them, thinking they're the most important because its been told to us so many times, that in case an escape or reach situation arises, we can use them to get away quickly. Thats what alot of people think Parkour is about, but 1 aspect of parkour we all forget sometimes is that parkour teaches us to help others as well. Without using "parkour movements" or the pure, physical side of parkour.
that day, we forgot to be useful, and i regret it now. My training, respect and understanding of parkour and its philosophy has since grown. I'm still learning, we're all still learning.
so just think of what i wrote right now and hopefully next time you see someone needing help, go and help them.
-Bullfrog