I fell, in the middle of Cardiff city centre, at lunch time. As you can imagine, it was busy, people walking around, grabbing lunch, doing their shopping and so you can now start to imagine how embarrassing it was to fall in front of them all.
I have metal in my knee which causes it to give way, usually I just look like I've bent one knee too fast, but occasionally it's worse. Today it was worse.
My knee gave out, my ankle rolled and I fell flat on my face. At first the only thing I noticed was how mortified I was that everyone around me had noticed. One woman asked if I was okay, but had walked away before I was able to reply...
Then I felt the pain, in my foot and all the way up my leg, unlike anything I've felt for a long time, so I sat, sobbing, waiting for my mum to come and save me. All the while people just watched as they walked by. Apart from one man and his wife. Right as my mum reached me, trying to figure out the best thing to do an older man, pushing his wife in a wheelchair stopped in his tracks. I didn't really notice him at first, until I heard 'are you okay my darling'. He then insisted his wife was to sit on the bench next to me and I was to get into her wheelchair so he could take me to a taxi to get me home safe...
Because of the kindness of one man I was able to get home in a taxi and wait for one of my parents to finish work and take me to A&E.
It really is true what they say, one act of kindness can change someone's day. To those who walked past me, ignoring me as I lay crying on the floor or sat sobbing on the bench, I hope one day someone is this kind to you and you find your way to showing someone the kindness I was shown by a man who's name I don't even know.
