Heaven and Hell

“Hell is other people” quoting Jean Paul Sartre I'm intrigued by how true that is. Just look at our world today! What we humans do to eachother is amazing. Even from the beginning with school-yard bullys. Get'em young, teach'em young. It's not like we're good role models! Ask any woman who her worst enemy is and she will say another woman. It's not bad enough the world is against us, we have to fight amongst ourselves as well. The same can be said for many things, we witness the atrocities every day. We see it with our own eyes, we hear it on the news. The things that we are capable of never cease to amaze me.
In new york it's a running joke that when somebody in your building is sick, you call them, not to see how they are, but to find out if their apartment will be up for rent. It's a dog eat dog world. And everybody wants to be the top dog.
But yesterday I saw something special. Yesterday I saw a college student buy food and bring it outside to the man on the street. He's been sitting there for weeks, on a torn black garbage bag, out in the snow, asking for change. A broke college kid became a symbol of hope for him. A bowl of soup and a warm bun elicted tears. That guy Sarte, he was only half right, sometimes heaven is other people.