Shadow

🇵🇱Take a note, the symbolism of this scene is profound Seconds after the worst of humanity tore through Kraków on Saturday afternoon, the same footage shows its best: a person moving toward strangers who had been shot, with nothing to offer but empathy and the will to help. Many people stood within reach of the wounded. The first to reach them was someone on crutches. You can watch the distance close slowly, everyone else had legs that could run, and most of them ran, which is what bodies do when they are afraid. This one person, already carrying an injury of their own, moved toward the blood and pain of fellow humans, not knowing at the time who was who... Maybe it was training, maybe instinct, maybe something learned the hard way about what it means to be on the ground and need someone. Help arrived at walking pace, from the person in the crowd with the most reason to stay where they were. Six people died in that square. The first answer to that violence came from someone who could barely walk, but walked to help anyway.