I can't tell what is hoax and what is real anymore on the Internet.
I wonder if my emotions are being manipulated with just about everything I see.
So I hope this is real.
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A benevolent New York man literally gave the "shirt off his back" to a freezing homeless man on the subway Friday night.
The kind act was caught on camera and has been viewed over 13 million times on Facebook.
Joey Resto, a 23-year-old paralegal, says he observed that the shirtless passenger had skin abrasions and bumps on his head.
"It was a natural reaction to help, to do what I can. I hope they find this guy. It's not hard to spot him," Resto, a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, told the New York Daily News.
"He didn't really say yes, he just kind of lifted his arms like a child," adds Resto, who took off his own shirt (and hat!) and helped dress the shivering man
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notarobotDobbie is now free.
campionidelmondoTerrible title...
SagemindI found this to be a celebration of mediocrity.
mxxconWell, it is real NYC subway..and we do have a lot of mentally ill homeless people like this...
poolcleanerThe pain and misery which is ultimately the mediocrity of subway kindness viral videos. We are cursed with what we are doing here. The internet is a land that, if God exists, he created in anger. Overwhelming misery, overwhelming fornication, overwhelming lack of order. There is no harmony in the universe as we have conceived it.
But you don't hate it. You love it very much... against your better judgement.
I found this to be a celebration of mediocrity.
poolcleanerIf it was Keanu Reeves we'd love this shit without question. We'd be weeping and proclaiming the goodness of "some" celebrities. You know, the good ones. Like Keanu.
Well, it is real NYC subway..and we do have a lot of mentally ill homeless people like this...
Sagemindlol - no....
me·di·oc·ri·ty
a person of mediocre ability.
plural noun: mediocrities.
It's what happens when we celebrate something or someone for doing the bare minimum for what is expected.
It's like that participation trophy that all kids get at the game, even when their team lost. Making people feel special for not having done anything to deserve it.
The pain and misery which is ultimately the mediocrity of subway kindness viral videos. We are cursed with what we are doing here. The internet is a land that, if God exists, he created in anger. Overwhelming misery, overwhelming fornication, overwhelming lack of order. There is no harmony in the universe as we have conceived it.
But you don't hate it. You love it very much... against your better judgement.
Asmosays...*snort* In our modern society, the bare minimum is ignoring the guy and hoping he doesn't come over and bother us.
It could all be fake or that kid giving him the stuff might be broke ass as well. And even if it is mediocre, it might be everything to the old guy. You know, to be treated like you actually matter?
lol - no....
me·di·oc·ri·ty
a person of mediocre ability.
plural noun: mediocrities.
It's what happens when we celebrate something or someone for doing the bare minimum for what is expected.
It's like that participation trophy that all kids get at the game, even when their team lost. Making people feel special for not having done anything to deserve it.
SagemindBut yes..., that's the point!
Helping our common man should be so ingrained in us that the mere act of picking someone up and helping someone shouldn't be an exception. It should be the normal.
And since it should be the "Norm," we should never have to emblazon such praise on a task that should be so basic.
We have become a culture where we bestow praise on people that are doing what should be considered nothing at all. In this we are lowering the standard of what greatness is.
Helping this man, shouldn't be an act of heroism, it should be an obligation. But no, we pick up our cell phones and celebrate a task that is so basic, that we have made the sublime, exquisite!
SfnippleloverWell there are still Great people out there few and far.. This is a true testament of what we should be doing twords each other no matter what... thanks for sharing...
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