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Aug 11, 2014
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
" --Maria Edgeworth
An Icebox, A Live Heart And The Man Who Drove & Drove
In some ways, it was surprising that any good could ever come of a cadaver, a heart failure and a vehicle with a live heart in its trunk tearing through a crowded city. That it did on June 16, 2014 in Chennai, and that more than 50 people coordinated the whole thing with surreal precision to save a life, could tempt one to use words like 'miracle' or 'aberration'. But in truth, it was already the city's eighth time this year: a heart transplant made possible by someone's supreme generosity, a government organ registry's bureaucratic brilliance and the police's logistical enthusiasm.
BE THE CHANGE
Sometimes we are the ambulance driver, and sometimes we are the pedestrian, just trying to get out of the way for the ambulance to pass. Both matter. Find a friend and reflect on times when you have been in both roles and how both transformed your awareness of our interconnection.
