Believing in humanity

There was something special about the conversation with my acquaintance that I told you about last time. Something so special and atypical that I felt uncomfortable for a moment, but I couldn't make sense of it at the time, and only after the conversation was over.
It was the following - when I mentioned to her that I was unemployed, she immediately said: "Let me think if I don't have a known company in the region where you live to help you with something."

That's the thing that surprised me so much that I couldn't react, I couldn't even make sense of it. Because that kind of thing - to offer help to someone just like that, immediately, without that person even mentioning that they are looking for help, is something that I may not have ever experienced in my life, let alone in recent years.
And in the face of this woman I suddenly saw myself. Only myself.

Years ago, when after numerous personal unpleasant incidents I realized that people in Bulgaria are evil and therefore do not help each other, I was afraid for myself - had I become evil too. Would I help a stranger, someone I just met on the street and he asked me for help or didn't ask me, the kind of humanity and help I met in Spain for example.
Would I lend a hand to a fallen person on the street, as I have seen similar incidents in the capital and experienced myself and then no one lends a hand?

I have always sought to help friends and acquaintances. Even just with information, because I think that information, awareness is one of the most important things in life. It can give you everything if you get it at the right time and the right place.
I sometimes tried to help, even if no one was looking for help.
Just because that's how I understood life.
And now, when I go back, trying to answer the question, would I help strangers - yes, I would and have helped back in my life, although the last years have completely changed people again.

But now I'm talking to this woman, an acquaintance, she's not even a close friend of mine, and she immediately offers help. She doesn't really have anything to help me with. Even if she knows a company in the region, here the average salary is 600 euros gross, the normal salary is below 500 euros gross, unemployment is high and mainly positions are offered for low-skilled labor, there are no investments, no industry, no big companies here, let alone foreign ones. She has nothing to help me with and I didn't call her because of this.

But the important thing is that she reacts in this way instinctively, without thinking, reacts in a way that even people who have been aware of my situation for a long time and with whom I communicate regularly, have not reacted so far and will never react like this anyway.

That's what surprised me the other day, and now I realize how much the display of humanity in general surprises me. Basically, I'm the one who has high expectations of people based on my personal understanding of life and expectations that people could be the same as me, that they could do what I do or behave the way I do.
Then I get disappointed, of course. But I didn't know about myself that I stopped believing in humanity at all. And that I no longer have any expectations from anyone.

Well, I already know it.

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.

Personally, I am a sensitive soul with a strong sense of justice.
Traveling and photography are my greatest passions.
Sounds trivial to you?
No, it's not trivial. Because I still love to travel to not so famous destinations.🗺️
Of course, the current situation does not allow me to do this, but I still find a way to satisfy my hunger for knowledge, new places, beauty and art.
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