It’s easy to lose faith in your fellow travellers in life when you just look at the day to day things.
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Someone pulls out of a car park without looking, someone else you thought you knew gives you a rude stare, someone short changes you at the shops.
These things happen all the time, and many more little incidents that sometimes add up to a whole lot of resentment.
If you let it all mount up, you become one of those people who are just in this world for what it can give them.
And that’s just where people miss out on what it is that life really can give them.
Those little incidents, those slights and nasty moments, we’ve just about all done them ourselves, sometimes accidentally and sometimes because we were just having a really bad day and wanted someone else to feel the pain.
They are not the real deal.
The real deal is what happens when the chips are down.
The chips were down on a night in February last year when a few blokes were driving past a unit in Chandos Street and smelt smoke.
They didn’t drive on by. They took action.
They leapt out of their cars and helped two people they didn’t know, and because of those actions, two people survived.
That’s the real deal.
In the end, we’re all in this together, and our lives might depend on the person we snubbed at the supermarket that afternoon.
Those four men deserve the recognition they received on Saturday night.
They can also remember that when the chips were down, they were there.
Congratulations to those men, and congratulations to Gunnedah Fire and Rescue who have noted and remembered their actions, and given them recognition.
Those four blokes might be relucant heroes, but they are heroes all the same.
The statements of Gunnedah Fire and Rescue Commander Rod Byrnes also shows how deeply our firefighters and I suspect all emergency service workers, care about what they do.
“... all the brigade are very glad they were there because it saved us from a possible tragedy,” Mr Byrnes said.
Those firefighters who have recognised this bravery, regularly do the same things themselves.
There are many people in our community who perform selfless acts – emergency service workers, teachers, social workers, the list goes on and on.
Thanks to you all. The big things you do without thinking twice far outweigh all the thoughtless drivers in the world.