Amazing How Deeply One Can Be Touched By A Pure Soul

Met a special needs passenger at work this afternoon who almost made me cry. She happily greeted me and I made sure to shake her hand. Such purity can move one deeply.

I'm not a touchy-feely person but I wanted to give her a big hug, but didn't. As a Black Muslim philosophically and Gen X Southern Brother, I'm very conscious of maintaining decorum with the opposite sex.

Especially when our ethnicities aren't the same. Sorry if that's a downer but it's the world in which I was trained.

Back to this beautiful encounter.

Anyone who knows how cold my heart is knows this had to have been a God moment.

The sweetness of special needs folks is a reminder in these instances to skeptics like me that it's not the mentally and physically challenged who build weapons of mass destruction.

They're not the ones who scam people out of their life savings.

Nor do they car jack or launch mass shootings targeting defenseless school kids and staff.

Their purity communicates clearly, regardless of speech impediments and mobility challenges.

These instances remind me of my late mother, a public school speech pathologist and audiologist, who loved her special needs students.

She regretted having to fill out mountains of IEP paperwork (with my occasional assistance) which reduced treatment time with her students.

Lastly, as I do in these instances, I thought of the loving woman who accompanied this special young woman. I thought about what could happen if she's not longer able to take care of this special young lady?

That's a gut punch—a big one! Society shouldn't have mentally and physically challenged adults alone, having outlived grandparents and parents, without much needed support.

Amazing how deeply one can be touched by a pure soul.

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Nadra Enzi AKA Cap Black is a philosophical protector specializing in security management beside event organizers and owners of establishments serving the general public. (Substack)

Cap Black is a contributor to Canada Free Press, a security writer on touchy topics; security advisor/founder of Borrow A Brother volunteer safety escorts for female friends concerned about carjackings robbery and sexual assault. $realbrocap on Cash App