I pulled out a section of this interview with August Turak to make a few points.
Here is Point #1: (excerpt starting from timespot 6:14)
“And I was just flicked on the TV set. And I got on some kind of an educational television channel or something. And all there was was a young, it was obviously a young woman, maybe in her mid-20s, and she was sitting on a stool, and you could see her from the back.
“And she was watching a screen in front of her. And on the screen that she was watching was a young woman who obviously had a stroke or something like that. And she was spastic, all like this, and her eyes were only half open.
“And there were two nurses, two or three nurses, and they were yelling at her and shaking her, trying to wake her up. And they were doing all kinds of stuff. And she was angry. And so she's flinging at them.
“Let me alone. Let me sleep. Let me go back to sleep.
“And they wouldn't let her go. And so finally, they hand her a toothbrush. And she takes the toothbrush and starts brushing her nose. And the one nurse says to the other nurse, she says, well, at least that's better than yesterday because she kind of has an idea of what the darn toothbrush is for, you know. So we've made a little progress there, you know.
“And just then the guy behind the camera, you can't disembodied voice comes up and he says, does it bother you to watch yourself like that? And all of a sudden, the girl on the thing, she just turns around, and she's a beautiful girl, and she's obviously perfectly healthy. And she looks at the cameraman or whoever the guy was, and she says, Oh, no, not at all. She said, I love watching myself like that. It just makes me so grateful for all those people who never gave up on me.
“And I start to cry when I think about it even now”.
I called the guy who did this interview, because I was curious to ask something about the 2 or 3 nurses he spoke about. I asked Mr. Turak some demographic information about the nurses, whether female, or possibly male, as sometimes nurses are male these days, approximate age, names even ……
Upon questioning, August Turak remembered that two of the nurses were male, and one nurse was female. One male nurse was named Mark and the other male nurse was named Passio (strange first name, I know). The female nurse was named Sophia.
And that’s my only point. Figure it out.
Point #2: (starting at 18:38)
“It reminds me of that scene in The Matrix when Morpheus is walking Neo on the street that looks like New York City or something. It's just crowded. There's tons of people. They're in The Matrix. And Morpheus points at all these people and he says to Neo, he says, ‘these people are not our enemies. They mean us no harm. But let me tell you something. Whatever you do, do not try to take the matrix away from them because if you do, they will fight you with everything they have’”.
Point #3:
This particular post appears in my WOEIH parables section. There is much we can learn from parable stories.
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