The kindness of strangers: I thought I’d lost my flute for ever, then a chance to play Greensleeves returned it to me | Australian lifestyle

I was twenty -one years old, I live in Sydney, work as glass in a local bar and feel a little lost. I didn’t know what to do in life – the only thing that I used to go to play the flute.

I provided two years to buy my flute when I was 16 years old and got $ 2.35 per hour in the supermarket. Every day I will return to the house and play it. This will help me to address my feelings.

One day I was working in the bar when someone asked me what I was doing that night. I said, “I will play the flute in -“. Then I suddenly realized that I did not perform the flute when I got out of the train that day. I am immediately and fully dismay. I was very annoyed by throwing the plastic chair I was carrying across the room.

I raced to the train station to ask if it was delivered. It was not the case, but I gave them my number anyway if it appeared. I thought, well, it ended – stupidly, I was not even my name written in the case. I spent the following week in the total self -reinforcement mode, I am drunk and feel sorry for myself.

Then, one day, I received a call from someone in Cityrail, saying they had a flute. I went to the location of the missing property in Central and there was, among all the lost bags and umbrellas. When I went to seize it, the guards were asked for my identity. I moved to Australia from New Zealand, and the only identification that had an expired passport at my father’s house somewhere. I told them that I have no identifier, and it may be very difficult to get any. And they said, well, sorry – you must have an identifier to restore the flute.

I said, “What if I played a desperate and accelerated melody:” What if I played for you? “So I opened the flute, put it together, and played Greensleefes. I think the really strong feeling of returning to something I loved, and I lost badly throughout that time, in music. I think the guards have already shredded somewhat – and I know that I did.” This is your flute, “they said, and it seems that she feels comfortable. I just moved away without showing any identifier. Doublely – first of the person who delivered the flute, then the guards who gave up the rules to allow me to take them.

There is a picture of large cities as places without a soul, or that there is an absence of civil responsibility and everyone outside themselves. But I must say, I have passed difficult times in my life. You are informally residing for a certain period. I was a street bus to play the same flute for many years. Through this all that people have found very good, and they are good with people who have no possibility to receive anything in return. They are generally cute, only for other humans, because they can be.

Since that day at the train station, I have been more likely to return the lost elements than you were otherwise, because I am very grateful for that person who returned the flute. It has passed 30, and I have not forgotten a gesture.

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