An occasion when you went all out to help a stranger

It was an evening on a normal school day, the skies began to darken as i walked the journey back home. As i walk, street lights began to flicker and then turned themselves on. My shadow started to grow longer as i drew closer to the street lights. The hill where i would end my journey and where my home awaits grew larger as i headed towards it. When i finally reached the hill, I began to climb it, but i did not expect a disaster waiting for me at the top of the hill...

As i climb, a woman, around the age of 40, pushing a wheelchair came into my view. Seated on the wheelchair was an elderly lady. She had a pool of white hair and was skeletal like. She seemed very fragile and sickly. The middle age lady was pushing the wheelchair with all her might up the hill. She was painting as she pushed. Just as she was reaching the top, all of a sudden, the woman lost grip on the wheelchair. The wheelchair started accelerating down the hill with the speed of a bullet heading towards me, with it, carrying a screaming elderly lady.

There was a cacophony of sounds as the screams of the woman, the elderly lady, and me, together with the uproar of the screeching sounds coming from the wheelchair flooded the entire area. The woman started running after the wheelchair, shouting at it to stop. But to no avail, the wheelchair continued accelerating downhill. There was no time to procrastinate. In a matter of seconds, I quickly chucked my overweight bag one side and without contemplating, rushed forward to stop the wheelchair from it's descend. Unfortunately, the momentum was too great. I was thrown down on to the rough terrain of the concrete floor. Luckily I was only a few metres from the foot of the hill and my strength was not wasted as the wheelchair decided to stop in the nick of time just in front of a road filled with speeding cars. Everyone blew a sigh of relief.

Although everything turend out alright for the elderly lady, it did not turned out alright for me. I suffered cuts and bruises from the push to the floor and also got disciplined by my mum as my uniform got torn in the incident. But i did not regret what i did as i amnaged to saved a life. This time, i really went all out to help a stranger.

-Joel ^^