I tried to save a bird today. Yet like I always say, "You can bring a horse to the river, but you can't make the horse drink the water." I tried to save the bird, but the bird refused my help.
I was walking back to the office with a brunch of colleagues after lunch, talking, chatting, joking, laughing. In a distance, I saw some movement on the grass patch in front. I went over to take a closer look. It was a bird fallen off the trees, with broken legs. It couldn't stand up so it couldn't leap off the ground and fly. It was struggling so hard to fly away. But it couldn't. I wanted to pick up, bring it back and nurse it. But the poor bird is struggling in between a fence of a construction side. It fumbled into the construction side, which is out of my reach.
A few colleagues came over and see what I was doing. We stayed there for more than 15 minutes, hoping that the bird can come out of the fence so we can help it. But the bird, not knowing our kindness, went further and further away from the fence. So far that we have to say "I have tried to save you, but you didn't want our help."
After office hour, as we passed by the area on our way home, we saw the bird drown in the puddle of water within the construction area. If only it allow us to come closer.
Morale of the story? Perhaps sometimes others wanted to help you, but you take their kindness as evil and run away. They tried, but you refused their offer.
