Monday, February 15

biggest army the world has ever seen.

today a woman on the train was crying. sobbing into the phone that she'd just got a train ticket that she couldn't afford, couldn't pay her bills, hadn't eaten in days and was running out of phone credit and never knew things could get this bad. her phone cut out and she looked out the window and just kept crying onto the dirty plastic windows. i wrote her a letter i didn't give. the woman across from me gave her a fifty dollar note and a ham sandwich. a businessman looked embarassed as he passed her a tenner on his way off the train. an old guy gave her directions. there is no, international, co-operation without grassroots things like this. we help each other.

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  1. Moments like that break my heart. It's the kind of thing you find yourself thinking about as you fall asleep.

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