Behind the pain is kindness

On October 6, Mr. Dinh Ngoc Binh, a former soldier at the northern border and also the person who transported the corrugated iron truck involved in the accident that killed 9-year-old TMH in Hanoi on September 23, was released on bail, two days after the decision to prosecute and detain him.

It is hard to forget the bewildered face of the middle-aged man behind the corrugated iron car parked on the side of the road, next to the pool of blood of baby H.

A painful, unexpected accident, baby H's family was in pain, all families with young children like hers were in pain, and Mr. Binh's family was also in pain.

But on the sidelines of that pain is a fate that should have changed, even though he was at the end of his suffering: a weak middle-aged man, whose teammates wanted to pool money to buy him a motorbike to drive a motorbike taxi but he refused because he didn't know how to drive a motorbike, and who worked hard to make a living as a porter and a cyclo driver around the poor neighborhood, suddenly fell into trouble with the law.

Both families were in tears. One side lost their child forever, the other side was considered a “sinner”.

Mr. Thach returned to his family after 12 days of detention. Photo: Zing.vn.

Yet the two families came together to share their loss, and the bridge between them was strangers. The reason for them to build that bridge was sympathy: pain for the child's family and also pain for Mr. Binh's family.

Mr. Binh's teammates shared the pitiful situation of the poor veteran who had been hunchbacked since his military service, as well as his self-respect, which moved the community.

Through artist Chi Trung and a journalist and martial artist, hundreds of strangers shared. They did not know Mr. Binh and H.'s family, nor did they know each other, but their hearts told them.

In short messages, they wrote their condolences to both families, hoping that the two families would reconcile. They shed tears for the unfortunate child but hoped that no one would have to endure more pain, imprisonment, or torment. They hoped that the veteran would be forgiven, and they did not want the sadness to be doubled.

And as expected, H.'s family wrote a petition to exempt the person who transported the corrugated iron - the old veteran Dinh Ngoc Binh - from being prosecuted. The family forgave and sympathized to ease the pain of losing their son. A truly admirable forgiveness.

How much bad news is there in the newspapers every day? Certainly a lot. But there is also a lot of good news, as this story concludes.

Mr. Binh "cuffed" was released on bail and had to take responsibility for the accident that happened to baby H., but he was forgiven, treated with respect and sharing.

I looked very carefully at the photo of baby H. that her family used as a memorial photo. No matter what angle she looked from, it looked like she was smiling, a very light, childlike smile.

Painful stories will end gently and compassionately if we know how to forgive, and each time this happens, life will sprout new green shoots of hope.

Those little buds will grow strongly if each person lives kindly next to kind people, and writes humane stories from their own lives, from those around them, like the ending of the story of the painful corrugated iron truck in the past days.

According to Tuoi Tre