Meet Johnson, Who’s Helping Others In #ChennaiRains Even When He’s Unable To Reach His Family

“It’s when you are acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
– Divergent

The rains in Chennai has shown us a different side of humanity. While half the nation is fighting for tolerance or intolerance, there are many who are working to save the life of the masses without considering their caste, creed, color or status.

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Among these brave heroes is one who showed us a heartwarming example of selflessness. Meet Johnson who is an auto-rickshaw driver. He is from Porur which is almost washed away in rains.

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Ever since the rains started causing trouble, he has been trying to help as many people as he could. He is helping teams deliver food and other relief stock.

 

The cellphone network has been down and many people are troubled as they are not able to reach out to their families. While discussing these problems Johnson mentioned that his wife is in Porur and she is 9 months pregnant. He has not been able to reach to her since last days.

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It is commendable how none of his personal problems stopped him from helping people out. He kept his personal woes aside and reached out to as many people as he could to help them out.

He stayed back in Chennai and managed to get relief packages and food to people even through 5 feet water.

It is people like Johnson who assure the belief in us that humanity is a long way from dead. It is alive till people like Johnson are among us.
More power to you Johnson, you are going to be a phenomenal dad.

H/T: Vignesh Rajgopalan

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