True story: To help or not to help

Here is another story. And involves also my friend George from Mantra for Ego.

Same place, "Sunny Meadow", a nice camp in the mountains of Romania where we spent with yogis the New Year in the early 90s.

As there were so many of us, the water at the washrooms was not enough so we needed to go outside (it was winter!!!) and wash our faces and teeth in the morning using the water of a small river passing by.

We felt very proud as we were (or pretended to be) detached of the cold.

I was sitting near George, brushing our teeth, when he lost his balance.

Now, this small river, creek actually was only around 1 m wide so you can easily jump over it.

When he lost his balance, he tried to jump on the other side.

I noticed only that he lost his balance and I tried to help, pulling him back.

Now you probably remember from high school Physics studies. If you apply 2 opposite equal forces to an object, it stays put.

So did George, who tried to jump over the creek, I pulled him back, so he was very curious why he stopped somewhere in the air. Gravity helped him to fall right into the middle of the creek.

It took all of us, including George, some time to stop laughing.