Sometimes, I really, really can’t understand how hard a person’s heart can be.

How can you look at this:

especially the second image, and not have your heart jump just a little in your chest? How can your heart just not sink as the sadness that oozes from this forlorn figure? Forget everything else – that “fat shaming” is wrong or that the poor man was just out at a gig enjoying himself (good on him for getting out – I am currently sitting on my couch being a bit lazy and pathetic while this guy is out enjoying life).

What the hell is wrong with the person who captured this image that they looked at it more than once and FOUND IT FUNNY? They found the embarrassment and shame of a human being so funny that they could ADD it to the first photo?

Even now, I am avoiding looking at the image. It absolutely breaks my heart. It hits me HARD every time I glance at it.

How do we value these people in our society? I don’t care if they are young or old, whether they have suffered hardship in their life, their failure to experience a basic human emotion in the face of such vulnerability makes them less than worthless in my very angry and upset eyes.

Thankfully, it seems that more and more, social media is being used as a force for good.

If you haven’t read the story, Google “The Dancing Man”. Here’s one of many articles on the internet: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32873055. Watch as many reports as you can, it will make you smile and bring tears to your eyes. Watch this lovely gentleman, Sean O’Brien, being interviewed. Kind and genuine, he speaks with such wonder and positivity about how many nice people in the world there are.

It appears that a writer called Cassandra Fairbanks, along with a group of other women, hunted him down, and let me tell you, this is the inspiring Random Act of Kindness I have ever heard of.

This invitation (from this post) really choked me up:

You inspire me, and remind me that for every negative action, I have the power to be an equal and opposite reaction. What sweet justice your EPIC opposite reaction has been, and I hope the bullies are ashamed of themselves for the rest of their lives.

Sean O’Brien, I hope that you head out for a night of dancing every time you feel like a boogie, and that you do so knowing thousands of people are joyously dancing along in spirit.