Who is to blame ?

Life after a Trauma has taught me to relate with everything related to justice and pain in a better way. One of the important things I do is try to put if's and if not's to the situation I have experienced and try to get answers out of them. It helps me be greatful and thankful on the positive side and know that on the other side there are people who have had not been lucky like me. It gives me a perspective about the unlucky side and at least force myself to get into action to do any kind of help. Of course, these are heavy incidents but it can definitely be a learning experience. If its true that "Loved people love other people" and "Hurt people hurt other people"then definitely "Helped people will help other people".

What about help?

I was diverted from looking at a video on facebook and further browsing on to a video about a Sub Inspector of Police, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu who was killed in an brutal incident early January last year when gangsters attacked him. The incident took place when two elected leaders of the state were going in a convoy. The video showed two things which caught my eye. One was the police man desperately crying for help and bleeding, when no one(including the minsiters) dared to come in and help with several people still sitting in their cars. The second was a man trying to give water from a bottle to the dying man standing at a distance fearing he may touch him. It

Ah I thought, I was also in a similar but less severe situation about 7 months ago. One of the Police investigators said that they have taken pictures of the accident and it was a horrible sight where I was. However there was a lady at the accident site who helped me, spoke with me and not at a distance fearing she may be contaminated. There was a person who called the ambulance immediately and there were doctors who immediately helped me.

The first few minutes after the trauma are important and people being helped immediately or being given access to medical help can be saved.

Even though I believe God gives life (Gen 1:26) and sustains it, He also uses people to practically help on the way. If I think about the unlucky incident I read, the learning could be to have compassion on those people and try to understand and move forward to help.

What about justice?

On a particular saturday afternoon I recieved a letter from my lawyer stating a claim from the bus driver "He got several signals from other cyclists to go ahead and thus he went ahead resulting in the fact that I was run over. In other words, there were fellow cyclists that were waiting for the bus to passby and I was the person who ignored and did not stop". I was shocked and it was a devastating feeling. Till that point everyone, including bus owner said that it was the fault of the Bus. I started rolling my thoughts to the day of the incident in my mind to check if there was any slight indication of the possibility of cyclists waiting. "I could clearly see myself in the cycle and the bus waiting at the side, and it was normal I thought because I had voorrang and to strengthen my feeling there were also 2 cyclists coming from the other direction but there was no cyclist waiting on my side or the other". Whose version can be true, I thought and thought. Finally I wrote a persuasive reply for the letter recieved and I just calmed myself down.

In a couple of weeks, surprisingly I met a unknown vistor in the Physiotherapy changing room. He seemed to know me and immediately started a conversation.

"Hey! were you the one under the bus in Amersfoort", the person asked.

"Yes" "How do you know that ?" I said

"I am the investigator from the Police side who investigated your case."

"What brings you here" I asked

"I have a smal knee problem" he replied

"Oh, thats a pity" I said

"Dont worry, Its much smaller than yours. By the way, what about your case?"

"Well, Its going on but the bus driver claims that cyclists were waiting when the accident happened" I said

"No, there were no cyclists waiting. You had voorrang and it was clear from the video of the bus that it was a careless mistake from the bus driver's part"

"We have given it in writing long ago and I am surprised that it still is not solved. Please keep me updated about it" He said

I immediately thanked him and it was a huge sigh of relief. Well, in my case the bus video was a witness but it just made me think about the various unsolved/unjudged cases in various parts of the world. Where will they get their justice?

2 Corinthians 5:10 says " For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Jesus Christ, that each of us may recieve what is due us, for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad"